NOTES FOR CHAPTER IV H. J. HOLTZMANN 84 In connexion with the following remarks on questions of principle, see also W. Wrede, _Über Aufgabe und Methode der sogenannten Neutestamentlichen Theologie,_ 1897, 80 pp. The essay discusses the plan and arrangement of Holtzmann’s work. On p. 32 Wrede remarks: “The treatment is far too much influenced by the desire to include all kinds of opinions from other writers. To a large extent my objections have to do with these methodological questions.” 85 Holtzmann, p. 111. 86 Cf. 2 Cor. xi. 6, where Paul speaks of himself as “inexpert in speech, but not in knowledge” (_τῇ γνώσει_). See also I Cor. i. 5, viii. I; Phil. i. 9, etc. “Gnostic” is used above in the general sense of one who lays stress on theoretic religious knowledge.—TRANSLATOR. NOTES FOR CHAPTER V CRITICAL QUESTIONS AND HYPOTHESES 87 _Die Apostelgeschichte,_ 1850, 143 pp. Acts, it is argued, is a work of “free reflexion” in which various hands have had a part. _Kritik der paulinischen Briefe,_ part i., The Origin of Galatians (1850, 74 pp.); part ii., The Origin of I Corinthians (1851, 76 pp.); part iii., 2 Corinthians, Romans, the Pastoral Epistles, Thessalonians, Ephesians, Colossians, and Philippians (1852, 129 pp.). The greater part of the epistles were not written until after Acts. Certainly Galatians is later. I Corinthians is earlier than Acts, and is doubtless drawn from common sources. The first to venture an attack on one of the main Epistles was Edward Evanson, _The Dissonance of the four generally received Evangelists, and the evidence of their respective authenticity examined_ (translated into Dutch, 1796), who holds Romans, as well as Hebrews, Colossians, and Ephesians, to be spurious. Further information regarding this, as it seems, rather rare book would be desirable. Whether any great critical importance is to be attached to it remains questionable. [Evanson (1731-1805), a Cambridge graduate, vicar of Tewkesbury, adopted Unitarian views, and resigned his living in 1778. His grounds for rejecting Romans are, the difficulty about the existence of a church at Rome prior to Paul’s visit, the number of greetings in chapter xvi., and supposed references to the destruction of Jerusalem in xi. 12, 15, 21, 22. The treatment of the Epistles is much slighter than that of the Gospels, where he shows some insight into the difficulties of what is now known as the Synoptic problem. The _Dissonance_ made some stir, and was answered by Joseph Priestley in _Letters to a Young Man,_ 1792-93, and by T. Falconer, Bampton Lecture, 1810.—TRANSLATOR.] 88 See A. Schweitzer, _Von Reimarus zu Wrede,_ pp. 137-159 (Eng. trans., _The Quest of the Historical Jesus,_ pp. 137-160).