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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: indicated in the use of the phrase from the beginning no less than ten times in the Johannine Epistles. Doubtless, Mark was quite innocent of any intention to raise discussions of this kind, but his words could hardly fail to raise them. And the object of the following discussion is to shew that the thought of the beginning, thus raised by Mark, explains some things in Matthew, and more in Luke, but most of all in John, whose Prologue appears to include in its objects that of helping the faithful to stand fast in the creed of a divine continuity: As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be. 2. The beginning in Mark Mark's opening words are The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ1, God's Son2. This is printed in our Revised Version as a separate sentence. If that interpretation were correct the words would be a title. In that case they would resemble the LXX Version of what are almost the opening words of the Books of the Prophets, Hosea being placed first by the LXX, The beginning of the word of the Lord in Hosea2. But Irenaeus and Origen run Mark's sentence on, The beginning.. .even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet? Thus punctuated, the words might mean that the beginning was in accordance with prophecy, or with the prophetic spirit, of which John was the last representative. Or the sentence might be continued still further, thus: The beginning of the gospel...was (or, came-to-pass) John, he that was baptizing..., or possibly As] the beginning of the gospel...there came- to-pass] John...4. 1 Christ, see App. I 4. God's Son is omitted by some authorities. 8 Hos. i. i?2 (LXX) The word of the Lord that came-to-pass unto Hosea....The beginning of the word of the Lord in Hosea (Heb. When the Lord spake at the first in Ho...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217952194 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217952194 |
| Weight | 1.34 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.92 In |
| List Price | $24.39 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 414 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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