Author: Henry James Coleridge

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-19

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780331428148

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Excerpt from The Ministry of St. John the Baptist If I might venture to utter a criticism on the many excellent works which already exist on the Life of our Lord, I should be inclined to add that it is just as to the arrangement and gradual unfolding of the providence of God as to the Public Life of our Lord that I have been accustomed to find them least satisfactory. It is pre-eminently as to that arrangement and unfolding that the true principles of what is called the Harmony of the Gospels need to be ascertained and applied, and yet it seems as if, even after the lapse of so many centuries, these true principles were but little attended to. The great St. Augustine, whose work on the Consensus Emm gelz'smrum is so full of various merit, has yet given all the authority of his name to a principle which can be shown to be altogether a misconception in this subject matter, and which, if a misconception, cannot be prac tically applied without producing confusion. For he has taken St. Matthew's Gospel as the basis to which to conform the statements of the other Evangelists, it being now generally admitted by students on the subject that the order of St. Matthew's Gospel is not chronological. In modern times there is a tendency to distinguish between the three first Evangelists, who go by the name of the Synoptists, and the fourth, who is supposed to fill up the gaps left in the history by his predecessors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Ministry of St. John the Baptist (Classic Reprint) written by Henry James Coleridge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ministry of St. John the Baptist If I might venture to utter a criticism on the many excellent works which already exist on the Life of our Lord, I should be inclined to add that it is just as to the arrangement and gradual unfolding of the providence of God as to the Public Life of our Lord that I have been accustomed to find them least satisfactory. It is pre-eminently as to that arrangement and unfolding that the true principles of what is called the Harmony of the Gospels need to be ascertained and applied, and yet it seems as if, even after the lapse of so many centuries, these true principles were but little attended to. The great St. Augustine, whose work on the Consensus Emm gelz'smrum is so full of various merit, has yet given all the authority of his name to a principle which can be shown to be altogether a misconception in this subject matter, and which, if a misconception, cannot be prac tically applied without producing confusion. For he has taken St. Matthew's Gospel as the basis to which to conform the statements of the other Evangelists, it being now generally admitted by students on the subject that the order of St. Matthew's Gospel is not chronological. In modern times there is a tendency to distinguish between the three first Evangelists, who go by the name of the Synoptists, and the fourth, who is supposed to fill up the gaps left in the history by his predecessors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.