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Excerpt from The Gospel History and Doctrinal Teaching Critically Examined This manuscript is of great importance, both on account of its antiquity and because it is in all probability one of the fifty copies of the Scriptures which Constantine ordered to be made in Byzantium in A.D. 331, under the superintendence of Eusebius. These evangels, or gospels, were originally anonymous, and even so late as the time when the Codex Sinaiticus was written their titles are simply, "After Matthew," &c. These evangels make no allusion to any supernatural help, or Divine inspiration, but show from the manner in which they unhesitatingly contradict each other that the idea of infallibility, or canonicity, such as was given in their time to the books of the Old Testament in the synagogue, was entirely foreign to the authors with respect to their own writings. The following pages, some portions of which have already appeared in print, contain the results of modern critical enquiry, combined with original investigation, into the origin and historical value of these biographical narratives. The canonicity of our present gospels was not established till the Council of Nice in A.D. 325. Pappus, in his Synodicon to the Council, tells us how it set about choosing the gospels which it intended to adopt out of the immense number of gospels then in existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Strauss' highly controversial challenge to the historicity of the gospels pioneered the application of modern historical methods to religious texts.