CHAPTER XXVII.

FORMATION AND HISTORY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CANON—­1.  General Remarks—­2. 
Different Periods to be noticed—­3.  Apostolic Age—­4.  Age of the
Apostolic Fathers—­Remarks on their Quotations—­5.  Age of
Transition—­Events of this Age which awakened the Christian Church to a
Full Consciousness of the Divine Authority of the Apostolic
Writings—­Execution of Versions—­6.  Age of the Early Church
Fathers—­They recognized a Canon, though not yet Complete—­Canon of the
Syriac Peshito, Muratorian Canon—­Canon of the Councils of Laodicea and
Carthage—­7.  Closing Remarks

CHAPTER XXVIII.

ANCIENT VERSIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT—­I. Latin Versions—­1.  Interest attaching to these Versions—­2.  The Ante-Hieronymian or Old Latin Version—­3.  Its Canon—­Remarks on its Text—­Manuscripts containing it—­4.  Jerome’s Revision of the Old Latin Version—­5.  Jerome’s New Version of the Old Testament—­Books left untranslated—­The Vulgate and its Diversified Character—­Remarks on the History of the Vulgate—­II. Syriac Versions—­6.  The Peshito—­It comprises the Old and New Testaments—­Its Date—­Its Name—­7.  Character of the Peshito—­The Curetonian Syriac—­Its Relation to the Peshito—­Its high Critical Value—­8.  The Philoxenian Syriac—­Its extremely Literal Character—­Hexaplar Syriac—­Remarks on these Versions—­Jerusalem Syriac Lectionary—­III. Egyptian and Ethiopic Versions—­Memphitic Version, Thebaic, Bashmuric—­10.  Ethiopic Version—­IV. Gothic and other Versions—­11.  Gothic Version of Ulphilas—­12.  Palimpsest Manuscripts of this Version—­13.  Ancient Armenian Version

SECOND DIVISION—­PARTICULAR INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER XXIX.

THE HISTORICAL BOOKS—­1.  The New Testament a Necessary Sequel to the Old—­The Two Testaments interpret Each Other, and can be truly understood only as an Organic Whole—­2.  Remarks on the Use 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