A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory, on the Old and New Testaments, Vol. 1: Matthew-Corinthians (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Robert Jamieson

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ISBN 10 : 0243129041 ISBN 13 : 9780243129041

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory, on the Old and New Testaments, Vol. 1: Matthew-Corinthians

One argument has been adduced on the other side, on which not a little reli ance has been placed; but the determination of the main question does not, in our opinion, depend upon the point which it raises. It has been very confidently affirmed that the Gree language was not sufficiently understood by the Jews of Palestine, when Matthew ublished his Gospel, to make it at all probable that he would write a Gospel, or their benefit in the first instance, in that language. Now, as this merely alleges the improbability Of a Greek original, it is enough to place against it the evidence already adduced, which is positive, in favor of the sole originality of our Greek Matthew. It is indeed a question how far the Greek language was understood in Palestine at the time referred to. But we advise the reader not to be drawn into that question as essential to the settle ment of the other one. It is an element in it, no doubt, but not an essential ele ment. There are extremes on both sides of it. The Old idea, that our Lord hardly ever spoke anything but syro-chaldaic, is now pretty nearly exploded. Many, however, will not go the length, on the other side, of Hug (in his Intro duction, pp. 326, &c.) and Roberts Discussions,'' 25, &c.) For our selves, though we believe that our Lord, in all the more public scenes of His ministry, spoke in Greek, all we think it necessary here to say is, that there is no'' ground to believe that Greek was so. Little understood in Palestine as to, make it improbable that Matthew would write his Gospel exclusively in that langua so improbable as to outweigh the evidence that he did so. And when we t ink of the number of Digests or short Narratives of the principal facts of our Lord''s history, which we know from Luke (i. 1-4) were ?oating about for some time before he wrote his Gospel, of which he speaks by no means disre

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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0243129041
• ISBN 13: 9780243129041
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 908
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