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the Heathen missionary Pfcul , down u * his arrival in arrest at Rome , and to the second year of his imprisonment there * - —They were not written with an intent of justifying Paul ' s admission of Heathens amongst the Christians . — - Sources of the Acts of the Apostles , — Luke availed himself of no written
sources , such as the Acta Petri , the Acta Apostolorum— -but narrates , as compiler , in the first part , what he had gathered from oral traditions , and in both the other p arts , as eye-witness , what had passed immediately under his
own observation , maintaining a perfect independence of foreign aids , even in passages in which speeches , &c , are detailed *—Of the merits of the Acts of the Apostles considered as an historical
composition . —Chronological table of contents , —Of the age , credibility and authenticity of the Acts of the Apostles —time when first known—early corruption of the text . yl . Of the Writings of the Apostle John .
1 . Of the Gospel of John . —Accounts of John . —His residence in Asia Minor not to be disputed . —His stay en Patmos not confirmed by history . — Of the first part of his Gospel . — -John adheres to method in his narrative . —
He takes the archi-original Gospel ( Urevangelium ) as the basis of his work , which he occasionally amends and augments—From the purity and truth of the doctrine of Jesus , he
deduces the proof of his being the expected Messiah . —Miracles tormed no feature in his conception of the character of the Messiah The purity and truth of the doctrine of Jesus ,
coupled with his miracles , are explained by John as the effect of a union of the Xoyoq with the Txrvevfjict dyi oy in his persons—Of the ideas which he attaches to the koyo " <; and wv £ v [ aoc dyiov . Result of the foregoing . —John ' s Idea of the JUessiah . —Of the order iti
tvhich the materials of the first part of his Gospel are brought together . —The object of his Gospel is purely doctrinal ( intending to exhibit the character of the Messiah in its purity)—not polemical , as directed against the Gnostics
—or against Orinthus—or against the false disciples of John . —Of the second part of tw Gospel of John . —It co ** - tains anafceoujit of the h&t moments Vf fctie life of Je&us . ^ Appendix . — Authenticity erf the Gospel of John . —
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The earliest accounts of it to be met with about the middle of the second century . —Doubta respecting its age and authenticity considered . —Where and at what period it was written . — Style of the Gospel of John— -early corruption of the text .
2 . Of the first Epistle of John . — The language and style as well as the character and sentiments displayed in the essay designated as the first Epistle of John , warrant the conclusion that it was written by the author of the Gospel tinder the same name . — It contains admonitions to the Christians
to . attend to their duties—cautions to them to beware of the enemies of the Messiah , and a refutation of the doctrines of the latter . —The enemies of the Messiah were Jews who had
apostatized from Christianity , mid were no longer content with the testimony of the apostles in favour of the Messiahship of Jesus . — -Under these are not to be understood either Gnostics or
Cerinthus or the pseudewdisciples of John . —The parties for whom this essay was originally intended lived in Asia Minor . —In point of form , it resembles a dissertation more than a letter or epistle . — -The period in which it was written fell during the latter years of the life of the author of the GospeL—Its authenticity and
circulation . 3 . Of the second Epistle of John . — Its contents , and where and when it was written . —Its authenticity and ecclesiastical authority . 4 . Of the third Epistle of John . — Its contents , authenticity and ecclesiastical authority * 6 . Of the Revelation of John . —
Summary of its contents—victory of Christianity over Judaism and Heathenism—its dominion— -and the reign of the blessed . —Form of the Revelatioa ^—dramatical—of the nature of a symbolical drama . ' —Claims of the author of the Revelation on that head
considered . —Invention , plan and execution of the various parts of the Revelation —its merits and defects . —Of the author of the Revelation ; its language and turn of ideas , confirmed by external and internal evidence , lead to the
assumption that it is the production of the writer of that Goapel which ecclesiastic&l tradition ascribes ta John . — IWmculty of reconciling this with the JWrth , occupation and history of the
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£ 82 Summary of Ei&hharn * s Introduction io the N ^ w Testament
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1821, page 282, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2500/page/26/
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