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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 45 SYNOPTIC STUDIES. II. The Epistle Of James And The Sayikgs Of Jesus. In my first Study?which untoward circumstances have separated from this by too wide a gulf?I used the Epistle of James as a document from which we could deduce valuable independent evidence as to the earliest form of sayings of Jesus. But if we are to rely on the Epistle in this way, we must clearly have some sort of a theory as to the date of its composition and its essential character. I deviate into what may seem like a by-path because I believe it is possible to suggest a theory which will meet the central difficulty of the Epistle and at the same time encourage us to use it as a prime authority for the Logia. Perhaps if the personal touch may be allowed, I am all the more ready to digress?if it be a digression?because the Epistle has always been to me no epistola straminea, but a golden book to which I have turned sooner than to any of the Epistles except perhaps Philippians, a book the quality of which has been approved not by weight of other people's judgements, but by the irresistible appeal of an authority within it which I at any rate find it impossible to gainsay. The son of Joseph and Mary?for such I take the author to be, while necessarily avoiding a restatement of reasons for adopting this side?James avows himself the slave of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, whose human brother he was well known to be. But having thus declared himself, he drops all overt reference to Christian faith, and only names the Master in a verse where the forced order of the words raises an extremely strong presumption of a gloss. He seeks a supreme example of Endurance in Job, instead of bidding his readers consider Him that hath enduredsuch gainsaying of sinners against themselves. And yet his short pages ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217348928 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217348920 |
| Weight | 1.28 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.88 In |
| List Price | $26.62 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 396 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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