This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...gospel-form--that was rather, as we havestyle 1 In a striking passage in which Professor Mahaffy contrasts the Gospel books with the other literature of their time the following sentences occur: 'The simplicity, the natural vigour, the unconscious picturesqueness in these narratives are so remarkable that, even had ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...gospel-form--that was rather, as we havestyle 1 In a striking passage in which Professor Mahaffy contrasts the Gospel books with the other literature of their time the following sentences occur: 'The simplicity, the natural vigour, the unconscious picturesqueness in these narratives are so remarkable that, even had they never laid any claim to inspiration, sound judges must have condoned their faulty grammar and poor vocabulary, and acknowledged in them at least the voice of honest men speaking from the heart, and thus endowed with one of the highest literary qualities.... What was more obvious, what more certain, than that such pictures as the opening scenes of St. Luke's Gospel or the Sermon on the Mount would be described by the critics as the work of late-learning and self-taught people, who knew nothing of the art of expression or of the laws of composition? And yet the world has judged differently... the metaphors on the mount, the parables by the way, have outlived the paradoxes of the Stoic, the rhetoric of the schools' (The Silver Age of the Greek World, Chicago and London, 1906, p. 442 f.). seen, the result of the facts of the case--he gave it a certain fixity which led to its adoption and perpetuation by the later Evangelists. His Greek is that of a man who had learned it as a foreigner, and from intercourse with men of the people rather than with literary circles, while his style, though as a rule of the simplest, is both graphic and forcible.1 There are signs, more particularly in the earlier portion of the Gospel, of a desire to abbreviate and compress,2 but along with this he does not hesitate on occasions to heap up and elaborate details, when he finds them necessary for the more vivid portrayal of his theme. And--though this has been questi...
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