Harmony Of The Acts Of The Apostles And Chronological Arrangement Of The Epistles And Revelation With Chronological And Explanatory Notes And Valuable Tables Designed For Popular Use And Specially Adapted To Sunday Schools

Excerpt from Harmony of the Acts of the Apostles and Chronological Arrangement of the Epistles and Revelation: With Chronological and Explanatory Notes, and Valuable Tables; Designed for Popular Use, and Specially Adapted to Sunday-Schools The following work was conceived by the author, several years ago, when preparing his Harmony of the Gospels; and is a continuation and result of studies pursued at that time. As the life of Christ can be best gathered from the study of the four Gospels in connection, so the lives of Peter and Paul, and the planting and training of the early churches, can be best understood by comparing the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles. The study, too, of the numerous quotations from the Old Testament, and of the contact of the first missionaries with the heathen world, helps to perfect our knowledge of primitive Christianity; while a comparison of the Acts with itself, as in the three accounts of Paul's conversion, gives a clearer view of separate characters. To the Scripture harmonist, therefore, the book of the Acts affords an interesting field, of great variety and fruitfulness. The design of this work is to help intelligent Sunday-school teachers, and others, to thus study, fundamentally and independently, this very important and central book of the New Testament. The increased attention now given to the relation between the Acts and the Epistles, especially in Sunday schools, encourages the belief that this effort is in the right direction. In carrying out this plan, the Scripture text of the 'acts is arranged into sections, with parallel passages below, the broad-face type guiding the eye to the more important similarities or divergences. In addition, many passages more distantly related are given in references at the end of verses. 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.

This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive biographical annotation about the author and his life Book I. The treatise opens with a short statement on the subject of the authority of the Evangelists, their number, their order, and the different plans of their narratives. Augustine then prepares for the discussion of the questions relating to their harmony, by joining issue in this book with those who raise a difficulty in the circumstance that Christ has left no writing of His own, or who falsely allege that certain books were composed by Him on the arts of magic. He also meets the objections of those who, in opposition to the evangelical teaching, assert that the disciples of Christ at once ascribe more to their Master than He really was, when they affirmed that He was God, and inculcated what they had not been instructed in by Him, when they interdicted the worship of the gods. Against these antagonists he vindicates the teaching of the Apostles, by appealing to the utterances of the Prophets, and by showing that the God of Israel was to be the sole object of worship, who also, although He was the only Deity to whom acceptance was denied in former times by the Romans, and that for the very reason that He prohibited them from worshipping other gods along with Himself, has now in the end made the Empire of Rome subject to His Name, and among all nations has broken their idols in pieces through the preaching of the Gospel, as He had promised by His prophets that the event should be. Book II. In this book Augustine undertakes an orderly examination of the Gospel according to Matthew, on to the narrative of the Supper, and institutes a comparison between it and the other Gospels by Mark, Luke, and John, with the view of demonstrating a complete harmony between the four Evangelists throughout all these sections. Book III. This book contains a demonstration of the harmony of the Evangelists from the accounts of the Supper on to the end of the Gospel, the narratives given by the several writers being collated, and the whole arranged in one orderly connection. Book IV. This book embraces a discussion of those passages which are peculiar to Mark, Luke, or John.

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