_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
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