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The Introductory Chapters to Luke's Gospel Spurious : tlieir Chronology inconsistent with Truth and with itself.
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Sir , April 27 , 1822 . ALLOW me to say , through the channel of your Repository , that I think Dr . Lant Carpenter is mistaken when he imagines that , " independently of the Introduction to St . Matthew , there is no chronological difficulty whatever in the Introduction to St . Luke ' s Gospel . " ( See Mon . Repos . XVI . 360 . )
Let us take his own statement , according to which the 15 th year of Tiberius commenced August 19 th , in the year of Rome 781 ; and place the baptism of Jesus , as he does , in the following January or February , in the year 782 of Rome . Connecting these premises with what he reads in Luke iii . 23 , the Doctor ascribes the birth
of Jesus to the year 751 . But I think the words of the text do not justify him in placing it earlier than 752 . According to the common translation , with which Wakefield and the Improved Version agree , this text informs us that Jesus at his baptism " began to be about thirty years of age . " * Now , the words * ' about
* " Jesus was about thirty years of a Re , beginning so to be . Ap % o / xfvo ^ fixes the senses of eJcrei to the beginning () t the thirtieth year . " ( Newcome's Hannioiiy of the Gospels , fol ., Dublin , 1778 , Note upon Luke iii . 23 , page 5 of his Notes . ) in his translation of the New f # iv
X — — ^~ ^^ . ™ ^ ^» — * ^^ j ^ m w *— " — — Testament , Hvo ., Dublin , 1796 , he gives a different explanation . Lightfoot says , the Evangelist " iutimateth to us that Jesus , when he was baptized , was but entering on his thirtieth year . " " The word apxofAtvoq , beginning to be , denieth " »» being thirty compleat ; for if he were /
w thirty , then he began not to be so . Ky the phrase , therefore , is to be understood that he was now nine ami twenty y ^ rs of age compleat , and just entering JjPou his thirtieth . " ( See his Harmony of H New T ^ tament , p . 8 , { 208 , errata , ] and " ^ aoiiy of the Four Evangelists , p . 455 . ) ^ iiger criticall y examines the words , lIKI contends that thev mean . " Christum
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thirty" cannot be fairly explained to mean any thing else than that he was nearer to thirty than he was to twentynine or to thirty-one . He must , therefore , have been more than twenty-nine and a half , and less than thirty and a half ; that is , he must have been baptized some time within the twelve
months that intervened between these two limits of his age , ( See Whiston ' s Harmony , p . 8 , No . vi . edit . 1702 , 4 to . ) But Luke informs us not only that our Lord's age , at his baptism , was within these limits , but that it began to be so . He could not , therefore , have passed through the first
half of the limited year : for if he had , he would have been ending instead of beginning those twelve months , Consequently he must have been baptized before he had completed his thirtieth year . And therefore if , with Dr . Carpenter , his baptism be placed in 782 , his birth must be placed in 752 .
Now , in what is commonly called the first chapter of Luke , the conception of John the Baptist is dated sb * months before the conception , and consequently fifteen months before the birth , of Jesus . ( See verses 26 and 36 . ) And if this birth were on the 25 th of December , in the year of Rome 752 , the conception of the
ad baptisimun accessisse trigesmio anno complete ) , et trigesimo uno ineunte , " and , according to custom , is very angry with those who understand them otherwise . ( See his Canoues Isagogici , Lib . iii . p . 306 , at the end of his edition of Euseb Thesaui . Temp . 1658 ; also De EmeucK
Temp . p . 255 , ed . 1583 , or p . 549 , ed . 1 (> 29 . ) Campbell has a , good note oti the passage in his Translation of the Gospels . Am-ong other sound and sensible observations , he says , thai ; " some critics have justly remarked that there \ B an
incongruity" between <* p % oM 8 * o 4 a * id efor € t " the one a detVnke , the e * her an indefinite term , which confounds the meaning , and leaves the reafler eutirely at a to . "
The Introductory Chapters To Luke's Gospel Spurious : Tlieir Chronology Inconsistent With Truth And With Itself.
The Introductory Chapters to Luke ' s Gospel Spurious : tlieir Chronology inconsistent with Truth and with itself .
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N ^ TCXCVII . ] MAY , 1822 . [ Vol . XVI ]
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1822, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2512/page/1/
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