The Fourfold Gospel; The Law of the New Kingdom (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. 1916 Excerpt: ...not "see" things like a Rabbi or a Philosopher, was more than once made the instrument of Providence for helping others to "see" things as they are. For that reason (it would seem) Jesus "tempts" him--not for Philip's harm but for the world's good. He was worth "tempting." It was destined that through Philip's reply to Christ's question "Whence are we to buy?" the world should be led to reflect on the paradoxical nature of that purchase-money with which the Son of God was to buy for them the unpurchasable Bread3. 1 Jn xiv. 8. Comp. Exod. xxiv. 10 "and they saw the God of Israel." 2 Jn xii. 21. 3 Some may reply "Philip and Andrew are mere dramatis personae introduced by the Fourth Evangelist, here as elsewhere, in order to present his own thoughts about Jesus in a dramatic setting." But note what Papias says about the pains that he took to inquire not so much about books as about sayings, and in particular (Euseb. iii. 39. 4) "what had been said by Andrew or what by Peter, or what by Philip, or what by Thomas., .," Is it not very rash to deny that in the Evangelist's days there were current many things alleged to have been "said by Andrew, Philip, and Thomas," not contained in the Synoptic Gospels, and that he made it part of his business to find a place for them in his Gospel wherever they illustrated the Teaching of Christ? No one disputes that Papias did this. Why should we deny the possibility that the Fourth Evangelist did the same thing? 20. "How many loaves have ye? Go and see," in Mark1 These words are in Mark alone. Their omission by Matthew and Luke may be explained by the difficulty of giving them Lk. ix. 13--14 a (R.V.) (13) But he said unto ...