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

modified by Bishop Herbert Marsh (1803), Gratz (1809), and Bertholdt (who, as Baur says, was devoted to it with "carnal self-sec ...

V. The theory of a common Oral Tradition (Traditionshypothese). Herder (1796), Gieseler (who first fully developed it, 1818), Sc ...

Commentaries on Matthew by Origen, Jerome, Chrysostom, Melanchthon (1523), Fritzsche, De Wette, Alford, Wordsworth, Schegg (R. C ...

Matthew was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, yet comparatively liberal, being a publican who came in frequent contact with merchants fr ...

king of Israel. It presupposes a knowledge of Jewish customs and Palestinian localities (which are explained in other Gospels).^ ...

Topical Arrangement. The mode of arrangement is clear and orderly. It is topical rather than chronological. It far surpasses Mar ...

the blessing pronounced upon Peter and the prophecy of founding the church (16:17–19); the greater part of the discourse on humi ...

in the second century, if not before, it was an acknowledged authority in the church. The Gospel of John also indirectly presupp ...

man.^926 But this does not impair his veracity or invalidate a simple historical notice. It is also said that the universal spre ...

Papias says that everybody "interpreted" the Hebrew Matthew as well as he could. He refers no doubt to the use of the Gospel in ...

But whatever be the view we take of the precise origin of the first canonical Gospel, it was universally received in the ancient ...

in his life. Lange ingeniously conjectures that his mother owned the garden of Gethsemane or a house close by. Mark accompanied ...

In what sense was Mark an "interpreter" of Peter? Not as the translator of a written Aramaic Gospel of Peter into the Greek, for ...

would be more likely to remember and report the fact as a stimulus to humility and gratitude than Peter himself. On the other ha ...

life-pictures in rapid succession. He takes no time to explain and to reveal the inside. He dwells on the outward aspect of that ...

form of Christianity itself before the circumcision controversy broke out which occasioned the apostolic conference at Jerusalem ...

and of affectionate diminutives.^969 He observes time and place of important events.^970 He has a number of peculiar expressions ...

Many minor details not found in the other Gospels, however insignificant in themselves, are yet most significant as marks of the ...

Integrity of the Gospel. The Gospel closes (Mark 16:9–20) with a rapid sketch of the wonders of the resurrection and ascension, ...

and the subscription kata mapkon, leaves the remaining third column blank, which is sufficient space for the twelve verses. Much ...