Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ...and again Philemon 24, and 2 Tim. iv. 11." Of the fourth he says, " The universal belief of the Christian Church has ascribed this Gospel to the apostle John." It may be well to add the testimony of infidels to the authorship of the four Epistles, thus rendering complete and conclusive the evidence which assigns to the first century the original documents narrating the resurrection. Baur says, " The four Epistles, which must on all accounts be considered the chief Epistles of the Apostle, are the Epistle to the Galatians, the two Epistles to the Corinthians, and the Epistle to the Romans. There has never been the slightest suspicion of unauthenticity cast on these four Epistles." Renan says in "The Apostles," " Not the slightest doubt has been raised by serious criticism against the authenticity of the Epistle to the Galatians, the two Epistles to the Corinthians, or the Epistle to the Romans;" while in his later work, " St. Paul," he speaks of "Epistles unquestionable and unquestioned; namely, the Epistle to the Galatians, the two Epistles to the Corinthians, and the Epistle to the Romans." Keim, the latest of the rationalistic writers, says in his "Jesus of Nazara," " The first Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians was written at the beginning of Easter, A. D. 58." "Suspicion is forbidden by his whole character; by his acute understanding, which was entirely free from fanaticism; by the form of his careful, cautious, measured, plain representation;... and above all, by the favorable general impression his report produces, and by the powerful corroboration which accompanied it in the clear, consistent, universal belief of early Christendom, and particularly in the testimony of a host of living eye-witnesses." Hence even if it could be proved...