An Introduction to the New Testament, Containing an Examination of the Most Important Questions Relating to the Authority, Interpretation and Integri - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1848 Excerpt: ... endeavour to unite both by affirming that John dictated the Gospel in Patmos, and had it afterwards published in Ephesus, through the instrumentality of Gaius. This combination of the two opinions is arbitrary, and evidently devised on purpose to reconcile conflicting statements. On the whole, there is no good reason for departing from the testimony of Irenaeus. III. Authenticity. The most ancient tesiimony to the authenticity of the Gospel is probably that contained in the twenty-fifth, and part of the twenty-fourth verses of the twenty-first chapter. If, as we think, they did not proceed from the author of the Gospel itself, but from some of his friends and disciples connected with the Ephesian church or otherwise, they afford the earliest and most indubitable proof of the fact, that the beloved disciple and sacred author were identical. The next testimony in favour of the early existence of our Gospel may be found perhaps in the New Testament itself. Thus in the second epistle of Peter i. 14, we read: "Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has shewed me." Here there seems to be an allusion to what is related in John xxi. 18 respecting the mode of Peter's death, so that this apostle was both acquainted himself with the fourth Gospel and also presupposes an acquaintance with its contents on the part of his readers. The next witness perhaps, who is available as evidence for the authenticity, is Ignatius, bishop of Antioch. Although even the shorter recension of his epistles is not free from interpolations, yet its substantial genuineness cannot well be questioned. Some of the epistles bear internal evidence of their originality more than others, such as that addressed to the Komans, which is distinguished from...

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