CHAPTER III.
THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS—continued.
The Epistles of Ignatius—One version allowed to be genuine—The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians: its acceptance as genuine by Irenæus—Hegesippus—Fragments only preserved of his writings—The impossibility of knowing what was in the portions not extant—Papias—His evidence respecting Mark's Gospel—His assertion that Matthew wrote in Hebrew, and Tischendorf's opinion that he wrote in Greek—Justin Martyr—His reference to the Memoirs called Gospels—The Clementine Homilies—Important quotation from Matthew—Paul's Epistle to the Church at Laodicea—Construction of Matthew's Gospel—The Epistle to Diognetus
CHAPTER IV.
THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS—continued.
Basilides—The Gospel to the Hebrews—Special pleading in regard to Hippolytus and the pronouns HE and THEY—Coincidence resorted to—Events HAPPEN to occur as predicted—Valentinus—Marcion, a critic of the modern sceptical sort—J. S. Mill—Tatian: his harmony of the four Gospels—Dionysius of Corinth—The word Scripture applied to the New Testament writings—The Gospel of Peter—Serapion's explanation why it was read at Rhossus—Melito of Sardis—The word old applied to the Old Testament implying the existence of a New Testament—Claudius Apollinaris and his reference to the four Gospels—Athenagoras—Opposite opinions as to his quotation from Matthew—The Epistle of Vienne and Lyons—Ptolemæus and Heracleon—Celsus—The Canon of Muratori