The Life of the Lord Jesus Christ Volume 6; A Complete Critical Examination of the Origin, Contents, and Connection of the Gospels. Translated from the German of J. P. Lange (Paperback)

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. 1864 Excerpt: ...opposite most essential types of His operation, namely, the Petrine and the Johannean, as it first manifests itself in a pre-eminently legal ecclesiastical form, and thereafter, towards the end of the world, developes itself in the formation of an ideal, free, and enduring Church. It accords with this conception, that the Gospel closes with a testimony on the part of the Church to the truth of the records it contains, and to the boundlessness of the Gospel history, vers. 24, 25. NOTES. 1. The further attacks of the Tubingen school on the genuineness of the Gospel of John, which have appeared since the introduction to this work was penned, have not in the least tended to make me give up the convictions there expressed (see above, vol. i. p. 165 ff. and 183 ff.) regarding the genuineness of the fourth Gospel. This is not the place to carry the above examination down to the present time, in continuation of what has already been made public. Still less can it be duty here to go into detail, the more it is forced on my observation, that these opponents are accustomed to remove out of the way the most material elements which militate against their own views, by simply ignoring them. As regards, e.g., the external testimonies for the genuineness of the Gospel, the assertion (as above, p. 169) has not yet been confuted, that the reason why Papias did not speak of the fourth Gospel, was because he was able to have personal intercourse with the Apostle John, whom he meant (in the passage referred to, Euseb. iii. 39),1 under the name of the Presbyter John. As little has the remark, p. 166, met with full justice--that Tatian's Diatessaron, according to its name, must have necessarily been founded on four acknowledged Gospels; that other Gospels than those which later s...