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The Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels.
By ANDREWS NORTON, Professor of Sacred Literature, Harvard University, Massachusetts. 2 vols. 8vo. ^'1 cloth.
*»» There are about fifty pages of new matter in the first volume, and this edition of the work embodies throughout various alterations and corrections made by the author at the present time.
THE Work consists of three Parts, as follows:— PART I.
PROOF THAT THE GOSPELS REMAIN ESSENTIALLY THE SAME AS THEY WERE ORIGINALLY COMPOSED John Chapman, 142, Strand.
I'J PART II.
HISTORICAL EVIDENCE THAT THE GOSPELS HAVE BEEN ASCRIBED TO THEIR TRUE AUTHORS.
PART III.
ON THE EVIDENCES FOR THE GENUINENESS OF THE GOSPELS AFFORDED BY THE EARLY HERETICS.
The very copious Notes upended to each volume constitute about half the amount of the entire work, the principal subjects of which are us follows: — CONTENTS OF THE NOTES.
NOTE I.— Further remarks on the present state of the Text of the Gos pels.
NOTE II.— Various readings of the; copies of the gospels extant in the time of Origen, which are particularly j noticed by him.
NOTE III— Undisputedlnterpolations in Manuscripts of the Gospels.
NOTE IV.— On the Origin of the Cor- I respondences amoug the tirst three Gospels.
NOTE V.— Justin Martyr's Quota tions.
NOTE VI.— On the Writings ascribed to Apostolical Fathers.
NOTE VII.— On the Statue which is said by Justin Martyr, and others, to have been erected tit Rome to Simon Magus.
NOTE VIII.— On the Clementine Homilies.
NOTE IX.— On the false Charges brought against the Heretics, parti cularly by the later Fathers.
NOTE X. — On the Jewish Dispensa tion, Pentateuch, and the other books of the Old Testament.
NOTE XI.— On the Distinction made by the Ancients between Things Intel ligible and Things Sensible; on the use of the Terms Spiritual and Material, as applied to their Speculations; and on the nature of Matter.
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NOTE XIII.— On the Gospel of Mar- cion.
NOTE XIV.— On the use of words ©KOSaudDEUS.
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