Synopses & Reviews
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: important connections the historical narrative of the Fourth Gospel bears the stamp of the secondary tradition, and cannot be taken as true and credible. This fact, however, is decisive against the authorship of the Gospel by the Apostle John. It would, of course, be conceivable that in the later recollection of the apostle many single events and circumstances in the history of the life he had lived with Jesus might have been displaced, many might have appeared during his old age in another light, in a loftier meaning, than before. But with regard to such important general questions as these,?whether the Baptist had recognised and borne witness to Jesus before his ministry began, and whether Jesus Himself had made Himself publicly known from the beginning as Messiah, and accredited Himself by demonstrative miracles,?that the apostle should have lost the true view, and adopted that of the sub-apostolic generation,?a view with but a specious claim to loftiness, which actually destroys the whole significance of the development of Jesus' ministry and of His recognition as Messiah,?this is inconceivable. C. THE LITERARY DEPENDENCE OF THE FOURTH GOSPEL ON THE SYNOPTICS 1. The Acquaintance of the Fourth Evangelist with the Synoptic Literature in general Our view of the relation of the historical record in the Fourth Gospel to the synoptic tradition is further advanced, and the verdict which we have passed is confirmed, if we take into account the literary dependence of this Gospel on the Synoptics. In spite of the obvious general contrast between his narrative and the synoptic tradition, the fourth evangelist was nevertheless acquainted with the synoptic literature.He must have known our three synoptic Gospels. This is revealed by his close verbal coincidence with them in ...
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