Footnotes
[1]. "Pertaining to or of the nature of teaching; intended to instruct or edify." (Dictionary.)
[2]. The above and some of the following notes of this lesson are taken from the "International Revision Commentary," on the New Testament. The comments are based upon the revised version of the New Testament of 1881 by English and American scholars. The International Commentaries were considered necessary, owing to the Anglo-American revision of the New Testament. For this revision it is claimed that it is based upon a much older and purer text, and corrects several thousand errors and inaccuracies which mar the excellence of the version of 1611. It also claims to put "the English reader as nearly as possible into the position of the student of the Greek Testament." We shall have occasion now and then to quote this work, and it will always be done under the title, "International Commentary," and must not be confounded with the "Commentary, Critical and Explanatory," by Messrs. Jamieson-Faussett-Brown, already frequently quoted, and still to be quoted in subsequent lessons.
LESSON II.
SCRIPTURE READING EXERCISE.
THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
| ANALYSIS. | REFERENCES. |
| I. The Gospel According to St. Matthew:
1. Author. 2. Date. 3. The Language and Aim of the Book. | Notes 1, 2, 3. Notes 4, 5, 6. |
| II. The Gospel According to St. Mark.
1. Author. 2. Date. 3. Purpose and style of the Book. | All the Bible Helps, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Biblical Literature, Bible Treasuries, Commentaries, etc., before cited may be consulted under the title of the books of this lesson. |
| III. The Gospel According to St. Luke.
1. Author. 2. Date. 3. Purpose and style. | Notes 7, 8, 9. Notes 10, 11, 12. |
SPECIAL TEXT: After these things the Lord appointed other Seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. Therefore said he unto them, the harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his harvest."—ST. LUKE.
NOTES.
1. The Name "Gospels" Defined: "The word "gospel" (God's spell, good spell, or story, message) is the nearest English equivalent for the Greek 'evangelion,' and means 'good news,' 'glad tidings' of salvation by Jesus Christ. It is also applied to the four books of the New Testament, which contain the fourfold authentic record of the one gospel of Christ, according to Matthew Mark, Luke, John (not the Gospel of Matthew, etc.)." (International Commentary, Intro. 12.)