The history of the ministry of Jesus Christ : combined from the narrations of the four evangelists / By Robert Willan.

  • Robert Willan
Date:
1782
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    More attention is alfo due to one evangelift than another, at different periods of our Lord’s miniftration; MaVk is more exadt with refpedl to the tranfadlions in Galilee; Luke enlarges upon the events and difcour- fes which took place in the journeys of Jefus Chrifl through Samaria and Judea j John is moft full and particular in what happened at Jerufalem; Matthew is perhaps leaf!; connect- ed, uling in his tranfitions the words, W, 3^, /A, 3^ syst'sjo) and sy iKuvu rS xetif<u, &c. without fpecifying the particular times.^ Where time, place, and more particular circumftances are referred to by any one of them, and omitted or negledted by the reft, we are bound to follow the precife account rather than the general. The many feeming inconfiftencies above hinted at may be moft eafily explained by attending to this diflinc- tion. It muft appear, on a little confideration, improbable, that any fet of men writing the fame narrative, but of different length, and on a different plan, could coincide in all the minute circumftances: and ffcill more fo, if each fhould take certain parts to enlarge upon, and croud together the remaining in-r * All thefe difficulties might be overcome, if we were allowed to fuppofe a difarrangement of two chapters in Mat- thew. After chap, 9. ver, 9. infert his 12th and 13th chap- ters ; and the order will then be found nearly the fame in all. Matthew’s gofpel in the prefent form cannot be fo well de- pended upon, if the general opinion be true, that it was originally written in Hebrew, and afterwards tranflated into Greek by an uncertain author: for thus it muft neceflarily be- come liable to alterations. cidents,