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. 1903 Excerpt: ...puts the truth vividly before us when he remarks that in this writing "we scent the air of the primitive Christian time" (Hauck-Herzog, Realcncykloptidie, i. 39). The date of the document has been the subject of much debate, and the suggestions of different scholars on this point have had an extraordinary width of ...
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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. 1903 Excerpt: ...puts the truth vividly before us when he remarks that in this writing "we scent the air of the primitive Christian time" (Hauck-Herzog, Realcncykloptidie, i. 39). The date of the document has been the subject of much debate, and the suggestions of different scholars on this point have had an extraordinary width of range. Sabatier made it precede the days of Paul's missionary activity; while Dr. Bigg would apparently carry it down to the fourth century! (see his Doctrine of the Twelve Apostles, p. 38). But both extremes are quixotic, and may be regarded as little more than critical curiosa. The choice practically lies between the closing decades of the first and the early decades of the second century, English scholars generally favouring the earlier period, and Continental ones the later. Dr. Abbott, in his article "Gospels" in the Encyclopedia Biblica, gives 80-110 as the date, and this is about the average of critical opinion at the present time. It is worth noticing that Hamack, who, in the original edition of his Lehre der Zwolf Apostel (pp. 161-170), advocated a period between 120 and 165, has more recently admitted that the earlier date presents the fewest difficulties, and that the Didachd may properly be described as belonging to the age of Hadrian (sec his article "Apostellehre," Hauck-Herzog, Realcncyklopiidic, i. 722). The case is not different when we come to Justin Martyr, whose Apology was probably written before the middle of the second century. In the picture which he gives us of the baptismal arrangements of the Church in his own day, infant baptism finds no place. The baptized are those "who are fully persuaded that what we have 1 The Oldest Church Manual, p. 31. taught them is in accordance with the trut...
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