History of the Christian Church, Volume I: Apostolic Christianity. A.D. 1-100.

Gospels are only variations of the same theme, a fourfold representation of one and the same gospel, animated by the same spirit ...

But with all their similarity in matter and style, each of the Gospels, above all the fourth, has its peculiarities, answering t ...

On the other hand, a considerable number of years must have elapsed after the resurrection. This is indicated by the fact that s ...

utter inability of the human imagination, whether orthodox or heterodox, to produce such a character as the historical Jesus of ...

humanity as the sacrificial ox. But Jerome’s distribution of the symbols prevailed and was represented in poetry by Sedulius in ...

"Though one set of facts is statted, They by each one are related In a manner all his own: This the prophet by four creatures, E ...

Currunt rotis, volant alis; Inest sensus spiuritalis; Rota gressus est aequalis, Ala contemplatio. Thus the Thus the forms of br ...

High the source, these downward trending; That they thus a taste transcending Of life's fount to saints may bring. Horum rivo de ...

Evangelien leuchtet, wird er nicht hinauskommen." And such Gospels Strauss and Renan would fain make us believe to be poetic fic ...

(b.) The preaching and baptism of John which prepared the way for the public ministry of Christ, is related by all the Synoptist ...

the reverent loyalty of all the Synoptists to the teaching of the great Master, but also, on the other hand, their freedom and i ...

Estimate by Verses. According to the calculation of Reuss,^883 Matthew contains 330 verses peculiar to him. Mark contains 68 " ...

Mark 1,174 (or in all 3,825) with Luke 34+ Luke 1,174 (or in all 3,825) with Mark 20- C. –– Words peculiar to Matthew 10,363, or ...

from antecedent sources. The advocates of the theory of interdependency, or the "borrowing" hypothesis,^887 differ widely among ...

These difficulties are felt by the ablest advocates of the borrowing hypothesis, and hence they call to aid one or several pre-c ...

plunder another historian of one-third or one-half of the contents of his book without a word of acknowledgment direct or indire ...

2:42). Reverence would forbid them to vary from it; and yet no single individual, not even Peter or John, could take in the whol ...

important works cannot be prepared without long continued labor and care. The best books grow gradually and silently like trees. ...

Besides the common Galilaean tradition for the people at large which is embodied in the Synoptic Gospels, there was an esoteric ...

Many scholars besides those just mentioned hold to this order without admitting an interdependence, and this I think is the corr ...