The New Testament in the Apostolic fathers

Trinity College - University Of Toronto, Oxford Society Of Historical Theology

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LIBRARY TORONTO Shelf No. 6S No.Register ..19r "N ENEW ESTAMEN rAPOSTOLIC FA ERS BY A COMMITTEE OF THE OXFORD SOCIETY OF HISTORICAL THEOLOGY OXFORD THE CLARENDON PRESSAT 1905HENRY M.A.FROWDE, PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD EDINBURGHLONDON, NEW YORK AND TORONTOPREFACE THIS work had its in a resolution bv theorigin passed ERRATA line readPige 51, n,/or passage Epistle readfar54, 25, (48) (49) insert60, 15, Polycarp before (75) read/or Smyrn.73, 32, Symrn. 26oii7 Luke as also80, 24, 9 ; read81, 2, /or ^v 77 Mts sentence should onfollow8l, 7, (97) from read/or83, 4 bottom, (93) (92) 2 from readfor 123 125 in Fathers.N.T. Apostolic useful but afford him some indirectionmaterial, helpful his own conclusions.reaching The first of the Committee was to aduty agree upon plan. It was decided to the books of the New Testament inarrange four the letters andclasses, A, B, C, D,distinguished by to the of of their use theaccording degree probability by several authors. Class A includes those books about which there can be no reasonable either because aredoubt, they or there are other certain indicabecausementioned,expressly Btions of their use. Class those books the use ofcomprises in the of the areacheswhich, editors,judgement high degree of With class C we come to a lower ofprobability. degree and in class D are those books which ;probability placed may in thebe referred but to which evidenceto,possibly regard too uncertain to allow reliance to beappeared any placed upon it. TestamentUnder each author the books of the New arePREFACE THIS work had its in a resolution theorigin passed by of Historical in a smallSociety Theology, Oxford, appointing Committee to a volume those ofprepare exhibiting passages Christian writers which or have beenearly indicate, thought to with of the books of the Newindicate, acquaintance any Testament. the of the theBeyond appointment Committee, has no whatever for the and theSociety work,responsibility which are to the Committee alone.judgements expressed belong The volume deals with the of the present writings Apostolic in which information is and traces of deFathers, scanty, on the of the New Testament are mostpendence Scriptures to doubt. The editors are aware that theiropen quite judge ments not command universal assent butmay ; they may claim at least that have beenthese judgements carefully sometimes after considerable men whoformed, hesitation, by are not without in this kind of It practice investigation. is that the book will not the student withhoped only provide useful but afford him some direction inmaterial, helpful his own conclusions.reaching The first of the Committee was to aagree upon plan.duty the inIt was decided to the books of New Testamentarrange four the letters andclasses, by A, B, C, D,distinguished to the of of their use theaccording degree probability by several authors. Class A includes those books about which either arethere can be no reasonable becausedoubt, they or because there are other certain indicamentioned,expressly B books the use oftions of their use. Class thosecomprises in the of the reaches awhich, editors, high degreejudgement of With class C we come to a lower ofprobability. degree and in class D are those books which ; placed mayprobability but in to which the evidencebe referred to,possibly regard too uncertain to allow reliance to beappeared any placed upon it. Under each the books of the New Testament areauthorPREFACEiv in accordance with these four that theclasses, exceptarranged for a section themselves after the otherare reservedGospels by In with the the divisiondealing Gospels followingwritings. has been observed : First are references to thepresented references toSynoptical Gospelsseverally; secondly, Synoptical where the individual cannot bematerial, Gospel distinguished to which the above classification seemscases ;inapplicable the Fourth andreferences to references;thirdly, Gospel lastly, Under each class theto (A, B, C,apocryphal Gospels. D) one another in the canonicalbooks follow order and;present the cited under each head are in the orderarrangedpassages to the editors andof markedprobability, according judgement, d to which an will similara, b, c, symbols explanation apply to that which has been in connexion with thegiven capital letters. The are in columns. The firstquotations parallelprinted the the reference. presents quotation containing supposed The second exhibits the or incorresponding passages,passage, the New from the text ourTestament, quoted approved by with when to variousRevisers, references,English necessary, A third when contains illustrativereadings. column, required, from the LXX Dr. stext of Swete editionpassages (the being or from other Underneath the several used) writings. quota aretions attention to orcomments, calling special points, the of the editors Inindicating briefly grounds judgement. D references are the text inclass without severalgiven have been cited ininstances, because, though they evidence, did not to deserve serious Inthey appear recognition. addition to these a were examined great many passages the but are not mentioned because the Comby Committee, mittee came to the conclusion that there was no serious for that showed the influence of theground arguing they New Testament. In the execution of the books were in the foregoing plan, first instance allotted to the members of theseveral Committee, in order that each make a list ofmight preliminary passages, with hisown and These werecomments. carefullyjudgements revised, at of the Committee.passage by passage, meetings were then in what was intended to be theirThey arranged