Why Four Gospels?: Or, the Gospel for All the World. a Manual to Aid Christians Especially Ministers, ...in Getting a Correct Understanding of the Gospels
Why Four Gospels?: Or, the Gospel for All the World. a Manual to Aid Christians Especially Ministers, ...in Getting a Correct Understanding of the Gospels
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. 1876 Excerpt: ...many-sided character was found not only the Messiah, the ideal Jew, but also the universal Conqueror and King, the ideal Roman. This Jesus, the inheritor of all the true power and manhood found in the Roman nature, and adding to this a divine power and manhood, is the Jesus represented by Mark. Section m. THE ROMAN ...
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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. 1876 Excerpt: ...many-sided character was found not only the Messiah, the ideal Jew, but also the universal Conqueror and King, the ideal Roman. This Jesus, the inheritor of all the true power and manhood found in the Roman nature, and adding to this a divine power and manhood, is the Jesus represented by Mark. Section m. THE ROMAN ADAPTATION IN THE OMISSIONS AND ADDITIONS OF THE SECOND GOSPEL. The Roman design of the second Gospel is manifest as well from that which the Evangelist omits of what is found in the other Gospels, as from that which he adds to what is found in them. I. The Omissions of the Second Gospel. It will be seen on examination, that Mark omits whatever is distinctively Jewish, Greek, or Christian, and would therefore be of little if any service in his work of presenting his Gospel to the Roman. Any one even tolerably familiar with the evangelical records will remark how very extensive these omissions are. From Matthew. As compared with Matthew's Gospel, which it most resembles, the omission throughout the second Gospel of the Jewish features will at once appear even to a cursory reader. The long discourses which make up so large a part of Matthew are not found in Mark. According to the testimony of Papias, Mark gives an account of "things both said and done "1 by Jesus; but the "things said" were rather incidental or brief sayings than systematic and extended discourses. The sermon on the Mount (Matt, v.-vii.); the charge to the Twelve (Matt, x.); the discourse to his disciples exhorting them to watchfulness and activity in waiting for his coming to judgment (Matt, xxiv.-xxv.), are not in the second Gospel. Aside from the fact that the Roman appreciated deeds rather than discourses, these discourses would have been to him peculiarly d...
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