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| Titre : | The Four Gospels as Historical Records |
| Type de document : | document électronique |
| Editeur : | [S.l.] : General Books LLC, 2012 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-1-150-18267-9 |
| Résumé : |
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1895. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... How these narratives, unhistorical as they have been shown to be, came into existence, or assumed their present form, it is not our business to explain; and once again, at the end of my task, as at the beginning and throughout it, I must emphatically disclaim the obligation. Whether a reasonable hypothesis may be advanced to explain their growth, or whether it may not, the narratives are not narratives of historical fact. With regard to the records of incidents subsequent to the bodily or sensible resurrection, we can but say that the seemingly earlier forms of the tradition give no precise period during which Christophanies were vouchsafed, and, indeed, appear to limit them to the one day of the resurrection itself, which is also the day of ascension. But as the manifestations were multiplied in the conception of the disciples, it was natural to extend them to the period suggested by the fact of the forty days immediately succeeding his baptism. If, however, he once appeared to the outward senses of his disciples as a conqueror over physical death, or, as it is called, the grave, he must vanish unseen, or depart from them visibly, to resume his majesty in heaven. Our Canonical Gospels give us, chiefly, the former notion: the latter is found in the Acts, and it carries us at once to the ascent of Elijah on the fiery chariot. As in that narrative the descent of his prophetical powers on Elisha is made to depend on Elisha's seeing his master taken up, so here the disciples are represented as standing with Jesus and as gazing upwards while he rises from earth into the heaven. CHAPTER XVII ALLEGED WITNESS OF THE APOSTLE PAUL TO THE FACT OF THE HISTORICAL RESURRECTION It has been asserted with supreme confidence that, although the Canonical Gospels, in spite of some ... ** |
