The Historical Evidence for the Virgin BirthTaylor, Vincent
Religion
The Historical Evidence for the Virgin Birth
Taylor, Vincent
Bible. Gospels; Jesus Christ -- Nativity; Virgin birth
87 ἀκριβόω, ἀκριβώς, ἀναιρέω, ἀνακάμπτω, βασιλεύω, βίβλος, γένεσις,
γινώσκω (in sense used), δειγματίζω, δεκατέσσαρες, διετής, ἐπάν,
θνήσκω, θυμόομαι, κατωτέρω, λάθρᾳ, λίβανος, μάγοι, μεθερμηνεύομαι,
μετοικεσία, μνηστεύομαι, πυνθάνομαι, σμύρνα, συνέρχομαι, τελευτῄ,
τίκτω, ὕπνος, χρηματίζω.
88 i. 22 f., ii. 5 f., ii. 15, ii. 17 f., ii. 23, iii. 3, iv. 14 ff.,
viii. 17, xii. 17‐21, xiii. 35, xxi. 4 f., xxvii. 9. Of these iii. 3
differs somewhat from the rest, and ii. 23 cannot be identified with
any single OT. passage.
89 See especially Stanton (GHD., ii, p. 343); also Allen (op. cit., p.
lxii) and Burkitt (GHT., pp. 124 ff.).
90 Cf. Burkitt, op. cit., ii. p. 259; Box, op. cit., pp. 11, 19 ff.;
Moffatt, INT., p. 259; Lake, _The Historical Evidence for the
Resurrection of Jesus Christ_, pp. 178 ff.
91 For the reference to Epiphanius see an article by F. C. Conybeare,
HJ., i, p. 96. Conybeare’s main argument is drawn from the edition
of the _Dialogue of Timothy and Aquila_, published by himself
(1898). He thinks that the Dialogue “reflects an age when [Mt. i.
18‐25] had already been introduced, but was not present in all the
copies” (p. 100). If we accept the view advocated by F. C. Burkitt
(_Evan. Da‐Meph._, ii. 265) this inference is not necessary. See
Appendix to present chapter, p. 106.
92 Γινώσκω (in sense used, but the phrase in which it occurs is
probably an insertion, Burkitt, ib., ii, p. 261), δειγματίζω,
μεθερμηνεύομαι, μνηστεύομαι, συνέρχομαι, ὕπνος.
93 Ὄναρ, παραλαμβάνειν, πληροῦσθαι, ῥηθέν, φαίνεσθαι.
94 “I cannot believe that any document underlies it. On the contrary, I
believe it is the composition of the Evangelist himself” (Burkitt,
_Evan. Da‐Meph._, ii, p. 260). Cf. also Allen (ICC., St. Mt., p. 5).
95 Sanday (_Outlines_, p. 196) writes: “In regard to the Matthaean
document we are in the dark. The curious gravitation of statement
towards Joseph has a reason; but beyond this there is not much that
we can say. It would not follow that the immediate source of the
narrative was very near his person.”
96 “In the historical judgement of the Gospels this distinction between
facts and reflections has frequently to be remembered” (E. P. Gould,
ICC., St. Mk., p. 37).
97 See _The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ_,
by Professor Kirsopp Lake.
98 Unless otherwise stated further references to these writers are to
the works cited above.
99 Cf. also Moffatt, p. 251; Sanday (_Outlines_, p. 197); W. C. Allen,
p. 8.
100 “The reading of _S_ itself I have come to regard as nothing more
than a paraphrase of the reading of the ‘Ferrar Group’, the Syriac
translator taking ᾡ to refer to ἐγέννησεν as well as to
μνηστευθεῖσα” (p. 263).
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