THE SYNOPTIC PROBLEM FOR ENGLISH READERS BY ALFRED J. JOLLEY London MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1893 All rights reserved Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God. 1 JOHN iv. 1, 2. ANDOVER THEOL SEMINARY OCT 25 1894 LIBRARY 46,638 PREFACE THE existence and importance of the Synoptic Problem are ignored by the majority of Englishmen, cleric and lay. Unprejudiced study of the gospels, on which so much of popular Christianity is based, is surely desirable, and it is hoped may be promoted by this little work. Frank acceptance of its results does not involve, as might be hastily assumed or recklessly asserted, denial of the Divine Nature and Mission of Jesus. The Gospels, though they have promoted, did not originate belief in His Divine Nature. They are not the cause, but an effect, of that belief. |