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, - VL Transactions from our Lord ' s entry into ' - Jerusalem to his ascension : cb , xix . 29 ^—xxiv , 53 . The fourth portion contains the greater part of that Gnomology which Bishop Marsh supposes to have , in a great measure , existed before St . Luke began to eornpiie his Gospel ; and to have been placed by him in the position in which we find it , on account of the references which occur in it to our Lord ' s
journeying to Jerusalem . The part of the Gospel which Marsh includes in the Gnotnology , occupies from ch . ix . 51 to xviiw 14 . For the , reason we have assigned in the preceding note , we would lessen the extent of that miscellaneous collection of Discourses , &c . ; and we much prefer the supposition that the Gnomology was formed b y St , Luke himself , from various records which he collected in the Persea , but which , from different causes , he could not interweave in the continuous narrative that he had given of our Lord's ministry in Galilee , or in that which he afterwards gives of the journey through the Peraea to Jerusalem , *
On examining the records of Matthew and Mark , respecting the last jour ? ney from Galilee , through the Peraea , to Jerusalem , ( Matt , xix ., xx ., and Mark x , ) and considering that the Apostles were with our Lord during the whole of it , abundant reason presents itself for the conviction , that the mission and return of the Seventy could not have occurred during that journeyf There is , indeed , no reference to these disciples in any part of the first two Gospels ; and the continuous nature of the narratives of the last journey , precludes the supposition that their mission took place during it . Upon our leading principle—that the miracle of the Five Thousand occurred a short
time before the Last Passover- —it was not possible that it should have done so ; and without departing from St . Luke's own Gospel , we see reason to conclude that he could not have intended to represent their mission as occurring between our Lord ' s leaving Galilee and his entering Judaea . He says ( ch . ix . 51 ) , that when the time was come that he should be received up , Jesus steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem , This expression excludes the supposition of a circuitous progress , or a long sojourn , in the Perasa ; and his direct course would not exceed forty or fifty miles . Three days would be sufficient for that part of his journey . During it he might work many mir racles , and often communicate his heavenly instructions to the multitudes
they would naturally suggest the placing of the whole in that portion of the Gospel , — in other respects tbe best suited to it . Again , considering this passage as describing the course our Lord took after being rejected in Samaria , we must place the miraculous cure of the Ten Lepers on the last journey to Jerusalem . In " a Harmony of the Gospels , " ( Boston , 1831 , ) *« on the plan proposed by Lant Carpenter , LL . D ., " in his ' ? Introduction to the
Geography of the New Testament , " this occurrence is placed before the Feast of Dedica ^ tiou , agreeably to the order in Dr . Carpenter ' s New Testament Geography . We shall have occasion to notice this beautifully printed Harmony hereafter ; but we may be allowed to express here our satisfaction , that the leading principles of arrangement which we are advocating , are likely to obtain an extensive reception among our transatlantic brethren . The Boston Harmony came to hand after our anticipation in p . 307 had gone to the press .
* Bp . Marsh ' s view of the contents of this Gnomology , will be found in his " Dissertation on the Origin and Composition of the Three First Canonical Gos - pels , " pp . 236—241 . How far he is correct ( or , rather , incorrect ) in saying , p . 241 , that St . Matthew " has a great part of the matter contained in Luke ix . 51—xviii . 14 , " may be seen by referring to our Table in p . 309 , § 33—64 . N . B . The reader will oblige us by altering the word taught ( in the last paragraph of p . 314 ) to wroughtt and also ch . x , 57 , to ch . ix , 57 .
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On the Chronology and Arrangemen t of the Gospel Narrative ?* 383
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1831, page 383, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2598/page/23/
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