. The Church of England pulpit, and ecclesiastical review. g that the whole work occupies only a little morethan six octavo pages, we are surprised at the amountof testimony—certainly much more than we had anyright to expect—which it bears to the canon of theNew Testament. Moreover, its evidence has anegative value also. In his Introduction to theStudy of the Gospels, Dr. Westcott has broughttogether all the traditional sayings of Christ, and theresult shows how very little was reported outsidethe canonical Gospels. This result is confirmed bythe document before us. It contains, indeed, onequo
. The Church of England pulpit, and ecclesiastical review. g that the whole work occupies only a little morethan six octavo pages, we are surprised at the amountof testimony—certainly much more than we had anyright to expect—which it bears to the canon of theNew Testament. Moreover, its evidence has anegative value also. In his Introduction to theStudy of the Gospels, Dr. Westcott has broughttogether all the traditional sayings of Christ, and theresult shows how very little was reported outsidethe canonical Gospels. This result is confirmed bythe document before us. It contains, indeed, onequotation of which the source is not known, aprudential maxim of almsgiving introduced with thewords, It has been said ; but we have no groundfor supposing this to be given as a saying of Christ-All the evangelical matter, so for as we can traceit, is found within the four corners of our canonicalGospels. These are the gleanings—neither meagre nor un-important, I venture to think—which a single year hasyielded in this portion of our field. (Cheers.). For Health and Immortality. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1884. RESULTS OF RECENT HISTORICAL ANDTOPOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH UPONTHE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTSCRIPTURES. AMOST interesting and valuable Conferenceon the above subject was one of the bestparts of the programme of the Carlisle ChurchCongress. The discussion began with a paper bythe learned Bishop of Durham, who, confininghimself to the results of recent research uponthe New Testament, dealt with two remarkable Finds, viz. — 1st. An epigraph supposed to havebeen written by Abercius, Bishop of Hierapolis, forhis own tomb, and (2iidly) the work known as the Doctrine of the Twelve Apostles. Respectingthe first of these, the Bishop said that Mr. Ram-say, in the course of his explorations in 1883, dis-covered in situ a portion of this very epitaph onan altar-tomb at Hieropolis. Though comprisingonly twenty-two lines, it is full of matter illustra-ting the condition and usages of the ch
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