A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays, by the Author of "Supernatural religion"

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Walter Richard Cassels. A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays, by the Author of "Supernatural religion"

A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays, by the Author of "Supernatural religion"

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INTRODUCTION

I. A REPLY TO DR. LIGHTFOOT'S FIRST ESSAY ON "SUPERNATURAL RELIGION" II. THE SILENCE OF EUSEBIUS—THE IGNATIAN EPISTLES. III. POLYCARP OF SMYRNA. IV. PAPIAS OF HIERAPOLIS. V. MELITO OF SARDIS—CLAUDIUS APOLLINARIS—POLYCRATES. VI. THE CHURCHES OF GAUL. VII. TATIAN'S "DIATESSARON" VIII. CONCLUSIONS [ENDNOTES] INDEX. I

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NOTE 3, FOR THE DATE A.D. 115–116

NOTE 4

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POLYCARP OF SMYRNA

IV

PAPIAS OF HIERAPOLIS

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MELITO OF SARDIS—CLAUDIUS APOLLINARIS—POLYCRATES

VI

THE CHURCHES OF GAUL

VII

TATIAN'S 'DIATESSARON.'

VIII

CONCLUSIONS

[ENDNOTES]

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Walter Richard Cassels

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The next example of the "weightier facts and lines of reasoning" of apologists which I have ignored is as follows:—

"Again, when he devotes more than forty pages to the discussion of Papias, why does he not even mention the view maintained by Dr. Westcott and others (and certainly suggested by a strict interpretation of Papias' own words), that this father's object, in his 'Exposition,' was not to construct a new evangelical narrative, but to interpret and to illustrate by oral tradition one already lying before him in written documents? This view, if correct, entirely alters the relation of Papias to the written Gospels; and its discussion was a matter of essential importance to the main question at issue." [22:1]

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