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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: representations of St. Luke. Neither is there any indication in St. Mark of wary steering, or of some latent aim of destination kept, like sealed orders, under lock and key. There is, in all the Gospels, perfect transparency and simplicity, ' the simplicity that is in Christ.' It is not needful to mine into profound depths, or to climb into giddy heights, in search of ' tendency.' No intricate involution, baffling to ordinary eyes, need be suspected. No divining power is required. There may have been, to a certain incidental degree, a desire, as Mill conjectured, to correct apocryphal or erroneous representations,1 that were getting afloat over society. But doubtless the one dominant and overmastering aim would just be that of all the apostles of our Lord, and of all, in all ages, who have imbibed aught of the apostolic spirit; to tell, for the sake of sinful and suffering humanity, the unvarnished but vivifying story of the life-and-death-work of Christ the Saviour. In other words, and in popular phraseology, the aim would be to unfurl the banner of ' the gospel.' The peculiar Tiibingen theory has been repudiated and opposed by the illustrious Heinrich Ewald, in terms of the most stinging severity. The school from which it emanates is denounced by him as ' mischievous ' and ' false.'a But in his own theory of the interrelationship of Mark to the other Gospels he formed, as is his wont, such peculiarly vivid conceptions that, to himself, they have started out from the canvas of his imagination, with all the self- evidencing or self-asserting authority of objective historical facts. He postulates a considerable variety of documents or books, now lost, but more or less incorporated in our existing Gospels. The respective peculiarities of these books are, he conceives, clearly ...
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