The Churches and Modern Thought. Vivian Phelips

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to date from about 853 B.C. The inscription records the victories of King Mesha over the Israelites.

56

Erected in honour of Ptolemy Epiphanes, 106 B.C. Famous as having furnished the first key for the interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphics.

57

Encyclopædia Biblica, art. “Messiah,” p. 3058, par. 2.

58

Ibid, p. 3063, par 10.

59

In Studies in the Character of Christ, by Rev. C. H. Robinson, Hon. Canon of Ripon and Editorial Secretary to the S.P.G.

60

Enc. Bib., art. “Nativity,” par. 10, 11, 12.

61

The late Rev. A. B. Bruce, D.D., Professor of Apologetics and New Testament Exegesis, Free Church College, Glasgow.

62

See Enc. Bib., art. “Gospels,” par. 139.

63

See Enc. Bib., art. “Gospels,” par. 138, where the reasons for this conclusion are explained. See also par. 108.

64

Author of various theological works, Hulsean Lecturer, Cambridge, 1876; Select Preacher, Oxford, 1877.

65

The interpolation in the last chapter of St. Mark goes back far into the second century. It is important to bear in mind that none of the dates given by Dr. Harnack and other authorities applies to the Gospels exactly as we now have them. Accounts of miracles have been added subsequently!

66

Enc. Bib., art. “Lazarus.”

67

Ibid, art. “Gospels,” par. 147.

68

W. C. van Manen, D.D., Professor of Old-Christian Literature and New Testament Exegesis, Leyden.

69

Spoken in an address to the St. Paul’s Lecture Society, at the opening of a new session in 1904.

70

The italics in these quotations from Dr. Harnack are mine.

71

Fully reported in the Methodist Times.

72

The Greek version, known as the Septuagint (LXX.), made in Egypt in the third and second centuries B.C. for the use of the numerous body of Greek-speaking Jews and proselytes in that country.

73

A Greek document which is supposed to have existed and then to have been entirely lost (imagine God’s Word lost!), and to contain some of the matter related by St. Matthew and St. Luke, while omitted by St. Mark. N.B.—While the evangelist St. Mark is relegated to the position of a translator only, St. Matthew and St. Luke are taken by orthodox theologians to be mere copyists of St. Mark and a “lost” document!

74

See art. “Gospels,” in the Enc. Bib., and Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in the Original Greek.

75

In his address at the Church Congress held at Weymouth in 1905.

76

In his address at the Church Congress held at Weymouth in 1905.

77

In his work, Verbal Inspiration. Quoted by Bishop Colenso in The Pentateuch Examined.

78

The Dean of Canterbury, speaking on the Bishop of Winchester’s paper at the Church Congress, 1903.

79

The Dean of Canterbury, speaking in St. Mary Bredin’s Church, Canterbury, December 4th, 1904.

80

See Appendix.

81

See Bk. VIII., chap. ii., par. 2, on p. 324, vol. i. Eusebius (Oxford: Parker & Co.). His candour here is deserving of all praise; but his methods can hardly be termed scientific; while an impartial perusal of his Vita Constantini, a panegyric on the Emperor Constantine, should be enough to shake the confidence of all but the blindest of his admirers.

82

See p. 179, chap. xv., of Gibbon’s Rome (Oddy, 1809).

83

See Appendix.

84

In note A, pp. 42–3, of his book, The Study of the Gospels.

85

At the discussion on Christian Science during the London Diocesan Conference, May, 1906.

86

See his book, The Days of His Flesh; Hodder & Stoughton, 1906.