Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — First Series Vol. 06 — Section 299
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Work: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers — First Series Volume 6
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers First Series Vol. 6
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The dangers attending harmonistic methods are obvious enough, and appeared very early. The tendency has been to create a rigid verbal uniformity. Hence the peculiarities of the several evangelists are obscured; the text of one is, consciously or unconsciously, conformed to that of another. The Gospel of Mark, the most individual and striking of the Synoptics, probably the oldest, has been repeatedly altered to correspond with that of Matthew. When uniformity could not be secured by this process, false exegesis was often resorted to, and hermeneutical principles avowed which injured the…
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