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Made of the Old Testament by the Writers of the
New--Fundamental Character of the Gospel Narratives--I. _The Gospel as a Whole_--3.
Signification of the Word "Gospel"--Its Primary and Secondary Application--4. General
Remarks on the Relation of the Gospels to Each Other--5. Agreements of the Synoptic
Gospels--6. Differences--7. Theories of the Origin of these Three Gospels: That of
Mutual Dependence; That of Original Documents; That of Oral Apostolic
Tradition--Remarks on this Tradition--Its Distinction from Tradition in the Modern
Sense--8. No One of the Gospels gives the Entire History of our Lord, nor always
observes the Strict Chronological Order of Events--Remarks on our Lord's Life before his
Baptism--9. Remarks on the Peculiar Character of the Fourth Gospel--This and the other
Three mutually Supplementary to Each Other--10. Harmonies of the Gospels--Relative
Size of the Gospels--II. _Matthew_--11. Personal Notices of Matthew--12. Original
Language of his Gospel--The Problem stated--13. Testimony of the Ancients on this
Point--14. Various Hypotheses considered--15. Primary Design of this Gospel to show
that Jesus of Nazareth was the Promised Messiah--16. He is also exhibited as the Saviour
of the World--17. Fulness of Matthew's Record in Respect to our Lord's Discourses--18.
He does not always follow the Exact Order of Time--19. Place and Date--20.
Integrity--Genuineness of the First Two

Chapters
--III. _Mark_--21. Personal Notices of Mark--Intimate Relation of Mark to Peter and
Paul--22. Place--Date--Language--23. Design of this Gospel to exhibit Jesus as the Son of
God--He makes the Works of Jesus more Prominent than his Discourses--24.
Characteristics of Mark as a Historian--25. Closing Passage in Mark's Gospel--IV.
_Luke_--26. Notices of Luke in the New Testament--27. Sources of his Gospel--His
Relation to Paul--28. Date and Place of Writing--29. Universal Aspect of Luke's
Gospel--30. Its Character and Plan--Comparison of the Gospels in Respect to Peculiar
Matter and Concordances--31. Integrity of Luke's Gospel--The Two Genealogies of
Matthew and Luke--V. _John_--32. John's Manner of indicating himself--33. Personal
Notices of him--34. Late Composition of his Gospel and Place of Writing--35. Peculiarity
of this Gospel in Respect to Subject-Matter--Its Relation to the First Three Gospels--36.
General Design of this Gospel--It is peculiarly the Gospel of Christ's Person--VI. _Acts
of the Apostles_--37. Author of this Book--38. Plan of the Book--Its First Division;
Second Division--Notices of Antioch--39. Office of this Book--Portraiture of the
Apostolic Age of Christianity; Cursory View of the Inauguration of the Christian Church;
Various Steps by which the Abolition of the Middle Wall of Partition between Jews and

Gentiles was effected--40. Concluding Remarks

CHAPTER XXX.
THE EPISTLES OF PAUL--1. General Remarks on the Epistles--2. Paul's Epistles all
written in the Prosecution of his Work as the Apostle to the Gentiles--Nature of this
Work--3. Paul's Peculiar Qualifications for this Work--His Mode of Procedure--Union in
him of Firmness and Flexibility--4. Character of the Apostle's Style--5. Points to be
noticed in the Separate Epistles--Notices of Paul's Labors in the Acts of the Apostles--6.
Present Arrangement of Paul's Epistles and of the Epistles generally--Chronological
Order of Paul's Epistles--Four Groups of these Epistles--I. _Epistle to the Romans_--7.
Date and Place of this Epistle--8. Composition of the Roman Church--9. Occasion and
Design of the Epistle--Its General Outlines--10. Special Office of this Epistle--II.
_Epistles to the Corinthians_--_First Epistle_--11. Place and Time of its Composition--12.
Notices of the Corinthian Church--Occasion of the Apostle's Writing--13. General Tone
of the Epistle as contrasted with that to the Galatians--_Second Epistle_--14. Place and
Time of its Composition--15. Its Occasion--Prominence of the Apostle's Personality in
this Epistle and its Ground--Peculiarities of its Diction--Its Office in the Economy of
Revelation--III. _Epistle to the Galatians_--16. Historical Notice of Galatia--Missionary
Visits of the Apostle to that Province--Date of the Present Epistle and Place of
Composition--17. Occasion and Design--18. Outlines of the Epistle--The Historic Part,
the Argumentative, the Practical--IV. _Epistles to the Ephesians, Colossians, and
Philemon_--19. Contemporaneousness of these Epistles--20. Place and Date--21.
Chronological Order of the First Two--_Epistle to the Colossians_--22. Notices of
Colosse and the Church there--Occasion of this Epistle--Character of the False Teachers
at Colosse--23. Outlines of the Epistle--Its Argumentative Part, its Practical--The Epistle
from Laodicca--_Epistle to the Ephesians_--24. Notices of Ephesus--Labors of Paul at
Ephesus--Occasion of the Present Epistle--Its General Character--Various Hypotheses
respecting it--25. Its Outlines--Its Argumentative Part, its Practical--_Epistle to
Philemon_--26. Its Occasion and Design--V. _Epistle to the Philippians_--27. Notices of
Philippi and the Formation of the Church there--28. Occasion of this Epistle--Place and
Date of its Composition--29. Its Character--General View of its Contents--VI. _Epistles
to the Thessalonians_--30. Notices of Thessalonica and the Apostle's Labors there--_First
Epistle to the Thessalonians_--31. Date and Place of its Composition--32. Its Occasion
and Design--Outlines of the Epistle--_Second Epistle_--33. Place of Writing and
Date--Its Design--Its General Outlines--34. Comparison between the Epistles to the
Thessalonians and that to the Philippians--VII. _The Pastoral Epistles_--35. The Date of
these Epistles and Related Questions--36. Character of the False Teachers referred to in
these Epistles--37. Genuineness of the