The apostolic age; its life, doctrine, worship and polity . nderstand, isnot only repeated by its author but is made yetmore urgent in the phrasing of the Apocalyptic Dis-course to which it refers. At an earlier stage, whendealing with the feelings of the Palestinian Chris-tians as the signs of coming trouble and war beganto thicken, we hinted that the development of eventsfelt to be fulfilling the tenor of Christs warning asto disasters coming upon Judaea and Jerusalem,would naturally color the tradition of the Masterswords upon this absorbing topic. Of this tendencyMatthew shows more sign th
The apostolic age; its life, doctrine, worship and polity . nderstand, isnot only repeated by its author but is made yetmore urgent in the phrasing of the Apocalyptic Dis-course to which it refers. At an earlier stage, whendealing with the feelings of the Palestinian Chris-tians as the signs of coming trouble and war beganto thicken, we hinted that the development of eventsfelt to be fulfilling the tenor of Christs warning asto disasters coming upon Judaea and Jerusalem,would naturally color the tradition of the Masterswords upon this absorbing topic. Of this tendencyMatthew shows more sign than Mark. And yet itslanguage in general, when compared with that ofLuke writing after 70 A. D., would be natural toone writing before rather than after the siege ofJerusalem. Accordingly this Gospel, using ourMark—written not earlier than 65 and perhaps ayear or two later—but betraying no consciousness ofthe actual issues of 70 A. D., may provisionallyand as a whole be assigned to 68-69 A. D. BOOK III. The Second Generation: Trials and CHAPTER I. AFTER THE STORM: THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS. |FTER the end of the Apostolic Age in itsnarrower sense, the age during which theoriginal Apostles were for the most partstill alive, our materials for history be-come rather scanty and of more un-certain date. Indeed within the New Testamentitself the Johannine writings are at first sight oursole authorities. It is true that first appearances arehere deceptive, since Acts, as well as Luke atleast among our Synoptic Gospels, probably belong tothe ten years after the fall of Jerusalem ; and infer-entially they cast some light on the fortunes of theChurch in those days. But after all is said, and as-suming that the Revelation of John is prior to 85,we are still sadly in need of chronological land-marks even for the first half of the era 70-100. Inthese circumstances it is well to bring prominentlyon the scene the one other complete Christian writ- 372 The Epistle of Barnabas.
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