[1] D.F. Strauss, _Der alte und der neue Glaube_
(1872), pp. 9, 10.
[2] _Collected Essays_, vol. ii., "On the Origin of
Species" (1860).
[3] 1 John iii. 8.
[4] Not necessarily of more than this. A few centuries
ago the twelve most intelligent and impartial men to be
found in England, would have independently testified
that the sun moves, from east to west, across the
heavens every day.
[5] Nowhere more concisely and clearly than in Dr.
Sutherland Black's article "Gospels" in Chambers's
_Encyclopædia_. References are given to the more
elaborate discussions of the problem.
[6] Those who regard the Apocalyptic discourse as a
"vaticination after the event" may draw conclusions
therefrom as to the date of the Gospels in which its
several forms occur. But the assumption is surely
dangerous, from an apologetic point of view, since it
begs the question as to the unhistorical character of
this solemn prophecy.
[7] See p. 287 of this volume.