A Critical Essay on the Gospel of St. Luke, With an Intr. by the Translator C. Thirlwall Containing an Account of the Controversy Respecting the Origin of the Three First Gospels Since Bishop Mersh's Dissertation on the Origin and Composition of Our Three
A Critical Essay on the Gospel of St. Luke, With an Intr. by the Translator C. Thirlwall Containing an Account of the Controversy Respecting the Origin of the Three First Gospels Since Bishop Mersh's Dissertation on the Origin and Composition of Our Three
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 Excerpt: ...called his host, who was then of course prepared to go with him. We can hardly hesitate to adopt the former supposition; for the latter circumstance would scarcely have been included in the account; our narrator would have begun directly, Ka) prrd h rf iixia dvroS. Another circumstance which shows Matthew's narrative ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 Excerpt: ...called his host, who was then of course prepared to go with him. We can hardly hesitate to adopt the former supposition; for the latter circumstance would scarcely have been included in the account; our narrator would have begun directly, Ka) prrd h rf iixia dvroS. Another circumstance which shows Matthew's narrative to be less immediate is, that he breaks the unity of the whole transaction by introducing John's disciples together with the Pharisees. In this addition every unbiassed reader, on comparing it with the narrative in our Gospel, will certainly perceive the perplexing alteration of a second hand which could not rightly explain to itself how the Pharisees came to appeal to the Baptist's disciples. The Pharisees evidently deemed it a fortunate discovery that they were able to lay hold of some external resemblances between themselves and the latter and so in a manner to claim them as their own, and thought themselves justified in holding out this example to Jesus, as it was. notorious that he had himself received the baptism of John and that several of the Baptist's most intimate disciples had gone over to him. But from John's disciples themselves the question would have been almost silly. Mark seems here too to have had before him both narratives, and to have wound his way doubtfully between them. I would moreover vindicate our narrative with respect to the last addition, verse 39, and remark, that it need not be supposed to have been borrowed from another place and only added here by an injudicious second hand. For it is not so much at variance with the mode in which the preceding figures of like nature are applied, to deprecate all intermixture of the new spirit with the old and with ancient forms. Old wine, it is true, is every where preferred, l...
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