SECTION III.

On the Supposition that the first three Evangelists made

Use of Common Written Documents

SECTION IV.

Proposed Explanation of the Correspondences among

the First Three Gospels

Concluding Remarks

SECTION V.

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Passages in which Justin has repeated the same Quota-

tions from the Gospels with Variations

SECTION IV.

On the Coincidences between Justin and the Greek

Gospel of Matthew in Deviations from the Text of

the Septuagint

SECTION V.

On the Quotations of the Fathers generally

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SECTION VI.

Remarks on a New Hypothesis respecting the Quota-

tions of Justin Martyr (by Credner) .

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NOTE F.

ON THE WRITINGS ASCRIBED TO APOSTOLICAL FATHERS cclvi

SECTION I.

Purpose of this Note

SECTION II.

The Epistle of Clement of Rome to the Corinthians.

Other Works ascribed to Clement

SECTION III.

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Concluding Remarks respecting the Evidence for or

against the Genuineness of the Gospels to be derived

from the Writings before mentioned

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THE

GENUINENESS

OF THE

GOSPELS.

INTRODUCTION.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE.

THE object of the following work is to prove the genuineness of the Gospels. In asserting their genuineness, I mean to be understood as affirming, that they remain essentially the same as they were originally written; and that they have been ascribed to their true authors. The ground which has been taken by those who have denied their genuineness, as thus explained, may appear from the following statements.

The Gospels are quoted, as the undoubted works of the authors to whom they are ascribed, by an unbroken series of Christian writers, reaching back to the end of the second century; or in other words, to the time of Irenæus, who wrote in the last quarter of that century. But it is affirmed, that beyond his time, the testimony to their genuineness fails. As we ascend to a remoter period, we come to the writings