From Reformation to Reformation

HOLY FATHERS: Bede, Isidore,[1] Procopius, Theodoret, Origen,[2] Rupertus,[3] Quæstiones of Augustine. REFORMED: Borrhaus,[4] Burman,[5]...

The parts of the Book are: I. The history of the occupation of the land, chapters 1-12; in which are, 1. The preparation for the...

10. How might the histories of the individual years or Passovers be reduced to a certain series? It is demonstrated that in this matter...

9. How the time of the ministry of Christ might be able to be distributed into certain years, in such a way that, with the beginning and...

8. The computation of four Passovers, or three and a half years out of Daniel, is also gathered out of foreign histories. That...

7. That interval divided by Passovers. Four Passovers are elicited out of John. Scaliger’s opinion of a fifth is refuted. Concerning...

6. The space of time between His Baptism and ascension variously disputed among ancient and more recent men. Moreover, concerning the...

5. In order rightly to establish that harmony, the true computation of the time of the ministry of Christ is to be investigated, and that...

4. The Harmony of the Gospels is defined. The committing of it to writing is not illegitimate, since the Evangelists themselves furnish...

3. In what do the Evangelists agree and differ? A reason for the difference is rendered out of Chrysostom. All the Evangelists have it in...

2. Jerome thinks that they are adumbrated by the mystical four-Cherub Chariot of Ezekiel. The four living creatures were contrived by the...

1. Why would God will the Gospel history to be written by several? Various reasons for the quaternary number of Evangelists. It pleased...

Why would God will the Gospel history to be written by several? Various reasons for the quaternary number of Evangelists, 1. Jerome...

The parts: I. The description of the person and coming of Christ: chapter 1:1-18. II. The ministry of John the Baptist: chapter 1:19-36....

8. The Parts of the Book are five. I. Description of the Person and coming of Christ (chapter 1:1-18). II. The ministry of John the...

7. The time of writing. With respect to the time of writing, that he wrote after the other Evangelists, even indeed at an old and infirm...

6. The idiom of the Book, and the sort of speech. The idiomatic expressions of Saint John. Now, he wrote his Gospel in the Greek Tongue,...

5. The argument. Therefore, Saint John, being about to compose the last of the history and sermons of Christ, covers in writing that...

4. A twofold occasion of writing is laid out, one out of Eusebius, the other out of Irenæus. Ancient writers ascribe a twofold occasion...

3. The writer of the Gospel. The Divinity of it against the Alogians asserted. That this John is the writer of this Gospel, he himself...