Notes On New Testament Criticism

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...placed Paul also in this class. Chronologically and literally, Paul could not be thus classed. But spiritually, the words of Christ (Acts xxvi. 16 "thou hast seen... I will appear") covering both past and future, when combined with mentions of "visions" and "revelations" in the Epistles and Acts, might seem to Luke to justify the classification1. 1 2984 a Iren. iii. 14. 2 quotes Paul's farewell to the Ephesians, including Acts xx. 27 "I have not shunned to declare unto you the whole counsel of God." Then he says, " Thus did the Apostles deliver to all what they had themselves learned from the Lord. Thus also does Luke...deliver to us what he had learned from them, as he has himself testified, saying (Lk. i. 2) 'Even as...from the beginning eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word.'" Here, and in iv. pref. 3, he implies that Luke means "the apostles," including Paul. But he does not explain how "from the beginning" and "eyewitnesses" could apply to Paul. 2984b Origen suggests various explanations of "eyewitnesses" (Lomm. vol. xx. Proleg. x. foil.i (1) those that saw Christ in the flesh (comp. Jn i. 14); (2) i) Tovt6 rffflV" virijpTai rod 6yov yeydvaaiv oi airbaroKoi, hs Tov 6yov rijs dridelas irapaSMvri To) 'ljctoo, meaning (?) "Or else he says this, 'The apostles are said to have become servants of the Word, as being servants to Jesus, who delivers the Word of Truth'"; (3) then follows, "But another says, 'If to have seen the Lord in the body had been to become an eyewitness of Him (totitov) then Pilate would have been an eyewitness of the Word....Knowing the Word therefore (to Ohv eiStvai Tov oyov) must be understood as the Saviour says (Jn xiv. 9) H...