_THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS._
The argument from the silence of early writers--Limits of the
inquiry--Quotations from unknown sources and tradition--The summary of
what the author of "Supernatural Religion" alleges his investigation
produces--His plausibility, special pleading, and boldness of
assertion--His line across history--Verbal testimony in the first two
generations--Inscription over the cross--Clement of Rome--Verbatim
quotations--Tischendorf and early translations of the New Testament
into Latin and Syriac--Pretensions on behalf of the Synoptics--Rénan's
views of the Gospels--Uniform plenary and verbal inspiration--
Perversion of Scripture--Epistle of Barnabas--The ninth chapter of
Matthew dissected and the miraculous eliminated--Tischendorf's
opinion ridiculed--Quoting unfairly--The Pauline and Petrine
contention--The Second Epistle of Peter--The Pastor of Hermas 41