A mediating position is taken up by E. Reuss, _Geschichte der heiligen Schriften Neuen Testaments_ (5th ed., 1874, 352 pp.; 6th ed., 1887). All that can be said in favour of the genuineness of the Pastorals and 2 Thessalonians is set forth with the greatest completeness, since the author is very reluctant to give up these writings. See the same author’s _Histoire de la théologie chrétienne au siècle apostolique_ (1852; 2nd ed., 1860, 2 vols., i. 489 pp., ii. 629 pp. Paulinism is treated in vol. ii., 3-262; 3rd ed., 1864). Mild polemic against Baur. Another mediating work is Willibald Beyschlag’s _Neutestamentliche Theologie,_ 1891; 2nd ed., 1896. Only the Pastorals spurious. A conservative stand-point is occupied by Bernhard Weiss, _Einleitung in das Neue Testament,_ 1886, 652 pp. Paul and his Epistles occupy pp. 112-332. The Pastoral Epistles are saved by the hypothesis of the second imprisonment. 2 Thessalonians and Ephesians are held to be genuine (3rd ed., 1897, 617 pp.). Conservative also is Theodor Zahn, _Einleitung in das Neue Testament,_ 1st ed., 1897, vol. i., 489 pp. Pauline Epistles, pp. 109-489. Ch. K. v. Hofmann in his _Einleitung_ (pt. ix. of “Die Heilige Schrift,” edited by Volck, 1881, 411 pp. Pauline Epistles, 1-200) proposes by means of the hypothesis of a liberation of the Apostle from his first imprisonment to make not only the Pastorals, but also the Epistle to the Hebrews genuine. That 2 Thessalonians and Ephesians are genuine is for him self-evident. Frédéric Godet too _(Introduction au Nouveau Testament,_ 1893, 737 pp.) regards all thirteen Epistles as genuine. 29 Typical in this respect is the procedure of Bernhard Weiss in his _Neutestamentliche Theologie_ (1868). He treats the doctrine of the Epistles of the imprisonment and that of the Pastorals by themselves after he has developed that of the main Epistles, although he regards them all as Pauline. 30 _Kritik der paulinischen Briefe,_ 3 pts., 1850, 74 pp.; 1851, 76 pp.; 1852, 129 pp.; _Christus und die Cäsaren,_ 1877, 387 pp. 31 _Beiträge zur Kritik der paulinischen Briefe an die Galater, Römer Philipper und Kolosser._ Edited by E. Sulze, 1867, 65 pp. 32 Lüdemann was opposed by H. H. Wendt in his work _Die Begriffe Fleisch und Geist im biblischen Sprachgebrauch,_ 1878, 219 pp. At the suggestion of Ritschl he undertook to prove that the meaning of these two words confined itself “within the boundaries set by Old Testament usage,” and that therefore the assumption of Greek influence was unnecessary. 33 Otto Pfleiderer, _Das Urchristentum,_ 1887. 34 Auguste Sabatier, _L’Apôtre Paul, esquisse d’une histoire de sa pensée,_ 1870, 296 pp. (2nd ed., 1881; 3rd ed., 1897). 35 _Das Evangelium des Paulus,_ pt. 2 (edited by Mehlhorn), 1898, 172 pp. 36 P. 31.