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the result of which comparison is to prove that neither of them is a transposition . 4 f The object of the nineteenth Dissertation is to point out the many critical indications of time , whiclj occur in the twelfth chapter of St Luke , and which all converge upon one ' and the same conclusion , that they belong to the last
period of our Saviour ' s ministry . " The object of the twentieth Dissertation is to render it probable that the destruction of the Galileans , alluded to at Luke xiii . 1 , was a recent event , and a consequence of the sedition of Barabbas . " The object of the twenty-first is to harmonize the accounts of St . Matthew and St . Mark , in reference to the question concerning divorce : and the object of the twenty-second , which concludes the volume , is , by the simple consideration of later and supplementary accounts , to remove every difficulty connected with the miracles at Jericho .
• ' The business of all the Preliminary Dissertations contained in the third and last volume , is to harmonize the several accounts of the Gospel history , from the time of the arrival at Bethany before the last Passover , to the day of the ascension into heaven . ¦ This object is effected through six consecutive Dissertations—of which the first ascertains more particularly the true date of the arrival at Bethany , and the true date of the procession to the temple : the second , the time of the cleansing of the temple : the third , the order and
succession of events on the last day of our Lord's public ministry , and the time of the unction at Bethany : the fourth , the time of the last supper : the fifth , the course and succession of events from the evening of Thursday , to the evening of Saturday in Passion-week : the sixth harmonizes the accounts of the resurrection itself . The particular purposes , which each of these Dissertations also embraces , are too many and various to be comprehended under any general statement ; and will be sufficiently evident from the Table of Contents itself .
" The remainder of this volume is taken up by a number of Appendices to the Preliminary Dissertations in general , the common purpose of all which is to supply some omission in former Dissertations of the work ; and consequently the particular purpose of any one of these Appendices is subservient to that of the corresponding Dissertation , to which the reader is accordingly
referred . " Vol . I . pp , xvi . —xix . The titles of the Appendices are , " On the Supplemental Relations of the
Gospels—Principle of Classification as applied to St . Luke ' s Gospel—Chronology of the Kingdoms of Judah and of Israel "—which irrelevant matter , designed as supplementary to the useless Appendix of the tenth Dissertation in the first volume , occupies more than fifty pages— < c Computation of Sabbatic Years—Journey of St . Paul from Philippi to Jerusalem — Rate of a Day ' s Journey—Time of the celebration of the last Passover—Miscellaneous Notes . ' *
In what further we propose to lay before our readers , on the Chronology and Harmony of the Gospels , according to the order of subjects which we traced in the preceding volume , ( pp . 763—768 , ) we shall have little occasion , we hope , for the style of animadversion which has hitherto marked our review of the Dissertations . We are desirous of stating what we deem
substantial truth , without entering upon the examination of opposing opinions , unless these appear to have some real force . Following this course , we shall not be required to enter much upon Mr . Greswell ' s data and reasonings . We shall find opportunity of considering such as really bear against our own views ; but if the principles we shall advance are just , there is comparatively lillle in those on which the peculiarities of Mr . GreswelPs Harmony rests , that can have a solid foundation .
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44 On the Chronology and Arrangement of the Gospel Narratives .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1831, page 44, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2593/page/44/
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