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. 1901 Excerpt: ...that James and Peter wrote these epistles, but certainly that supposition accounts for all the undoubted facts in a way that no other does. On the other hand without this modification in the attitude of the two apostles, the tradition which ascribes them to James and Peter will not stand for a moment. The epistles are ...
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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. 1901 Excerpt: ...that James and Peter wrote these epistles, but certainly that supposition accounts for all the undoubted facts in a way that no other does. On the other hand without this modification in the attitude of the two apostles, the tradition which ascribes them to James and Peter will not stand for a moment. The epistles are too Pauline to be ascribed to distinctly un-Pauline men. But whatever may be said about the authorship of these particular writings, their character is undoubted. They are an answer to Paul from the standpoint of prophetic Judaism, whereas his contest was against Pharisaic Judaism. They are a defence of justification by works of the law of liberty, which is the proper answer to the attempt to set up justification by the works of Mosaism. The appearance of this reply is coincident, moreover, with that of the Synoptic Gospels, whose source is traced to Peter. Again, we say, not to Peter the apostle of the circumcision, but to an equally historical personage, the Peter of later years--a man reborn out of the controversies of the The new time, and coming finally to adopt the freedom and Peter, universalism which characterised Paulinism, though led by it, not to the feet of Paul, but to the Master himself, whose story he retold in such a way as to put the whole controversy on its proper footing. The teaching of our Lord in the Synoptics is paralleled only by these writings, and it is significant that the source of the Synoptic story is the same apostle to whom one of these epistles is ascribed. That the other epistle should be the work of the other leader of the party of the circumcision, though not certain, should not seem strange, for it is not improbable that it, like 1 Peter, marks a change in the whole attitude of the party of the circumcision...
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Very Good-with no dust jacket. Red cloth, slight edge wear, bit of fraying at spine head. Former owner's name inside front. X-library, with internal and external marks.; 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 221 pages.