ANCIENT VERSIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT--I. _Latin Versions_--1. Interest attaching to these Versions--2. The Ante-Hieronymian or Old Latin Version--3. Its Canon--Remarks on its Text--Manuscripts containing it--4. Jerome's Revision of the Old Latin Version--5. Jerome's New Version of the Old Testament--Books left untranslated--The Vulgate and its Diversified Character--Remarks on the History of the Vulgate--II. _Syriac Versions_--6. The Peshito--It comprises the Old and New Testaments--Its Date--Its Name--7. Character of the Peshito--The Curetonian Syriac--Its Relation to the Peshito--Its high Critical Value--8. The Philoxenian Syriac--Its extremely Literal Character--Hexaplar Syriac--Remarks on these Versions--Jerusalem Syriac Lectionary--III. _Egyptian and Ethiopic Versions_--Memphitic Version, Thebaic, Bashmuric--10. Ethiopic Version--IV. _Gothic and other Versions_--11. Gothic Version of Ulphilas--12. Palimpsest Manuscripts of this Version--13. Ancient Armenian Version SECOND DIVISION--PARTICULAR INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER XXIX. THE HISTORICAL BOOKS--1. The New Testament a Necessary Sequel to the Old--The Two Testaments interpret Each Other, and can be truly understood only as an Organic Whole--2. Remarks on the Use Made of the Old Testament by the Writers of the New--Fundamental Character of the Gospel Narratives--I. _The Gospel as a Whole_--3. Signification of the Word "Gospel"--Its Primary and Secondary Application--4. General Remarks on the Relation of the Gospels to Each Other--5. Agreements of the Synoptic Gospels--6. Differences--7. Theories of the Origin of these Three Gospels: That of Mutual Dependence; That of Original Documents; That of Oral Apostolic Tradition--Remarks on this Tradition--Its Distinction from Tradition in the Modern Sense--8. No One of the Gospels gives the Entire History of our Lord, nor always observes the Strict Chronological Order of Events--Remarks on our Lord's Life before his Baptism--9. Remarks on the Peculiar Character of the Fourth Gospel--This and the other Three mutually Supplementary to Each Other--10. Harmonies of the Gospels--Relative Size of the Gospels--II. _Matthew_--11. Personal Notices of Matthew--12. Original Language of his Gospel--The Problem stated--13. Testimony of the Ancients on this Point--14. Various Hypotheses considered--15. Primary Design of this Gospel to show that Jesus of Nazareth was the Promised Messiah--16. He is also exhibited as the Saviour of the World--17. Fulness of Matthew's Record in Respect to our Lord's Discourses--18. He does not always follow the Exact Order of Time--19. Place and Date--20. Integrity--Genuineness of the First Two Chapters--III. _Mark_--21. Personal Notices of Mark--Intimate Relation of Mark to Peter and Paul--22. Place--Date--Language--23. Design of this Gospel to exhibit Jesus as the Son of God--He makes the Works of Jesus more Prominent than his Discourses--24. Characteristics of Mark as a Historian--25. Closing Passage in Mark's Gospel--IV.