[367] Admirably summarized by Mr. T. Whittaker in his Origins of Christianity. Cp. Van Manen's art. Paul in Encyc. Bib. [368] Dr. F. C. Conybeare has indicated the view that, Van Manen's chair having been offered to him after Van Manen's death, he is in a position to dispose of Van Manen's case by expressing his contempt for it. And Dr. Conybeare is prepared to accept as genuine the whole of the epistles, a position rejected by all the professional critics except the extreme traditionalists. [369] Eusebius, Hist. Eccles. iii, 39, end. [370] This term, it will be noted, tells of an abstract or generalized and not of a "personal" tradition. [371] Irenæus, Against Heresies, v, 33. [372] Canon Charles, note on Apoc. Baruch, xxix, 5. [373] Myth, Magic, and Morals, 2nd ed. p. 58. [374] Id. p. 53. [375] E. B. Nicholson, The Gospel according to the Hebrews, 1879, p. 101. [376] Id. p. 104. [377] C.M. 403 sq. [378] Art. Gospels in Encyc. Bib. cols. 1868, 1872. [379] Art. Gospels in Encyc. Bib. cols. 1767, 1846. [380] 2 Kings i, 8: R.V. marg. [381] This thesis is put by the Professor in art. Gospels in Encyc. Bib. col. 1881; also, at greater length, in his lecture, Jesus in Modern Criticism, and his work on The Johannine Writings (Eng. trans.; Black, 1907, 1908). [382] I have dealt with the nine texts seriatim in C.M. 441 sq., and P.C. 229 sq. They are more fully and very ably discussed by Prof. Smith (Ecce Deus, Part III), with most though not with all of whose criticism I am in agreement. [383] Eng. trans. p. 31. [384] P.C. 234. [385] Pref. to Eng. trans. of Arno Neumann's Jesus, 1906, p. xx. [386] Work cited, p. 9. [387] Unless we take the story of Thomas to be an invention to confute doubters. [388] See above, p. 113 sq., as to the Nazaræans. [389] De Principiis, iv, 22. [390] B. v, c. 61. [391] Cp. Neander, Church Hist. Bohn trans. i, 482-3. Jerome speaks (In Matt. xii, 13) of the gospel quo utuntur Nazaraei et Ebionitae, as if they held it in common. Cp. Nicholson, p. 28. [392] Hippolytus, Ref. of all Heresies, vii, 22. [393] Dialogue with Trypho, 47-49. [394] Neander, as cited, p. 482 and refs. [395] Epiphanius, Hær. xxx, 16. [396] Nicholson, pp. 15, 34, 61, 77. [397] Jesus in Modern Criticism, p. 33. [398] Cp. the Professor's work on The Johannine Writings, p. 90, where the same query: "Who could have invented them?" is put as establishing special sayings of Buddha, Confucius, Zarathustra, and Mohammed. I cannot follow the logic. [399] The argument is the same whether we say "inventions of the evangelists" or "appropriations from other documents, or from hearsay." [400] P.C. 218 sq.; C.M. 395. [401] P.C. 206, 223, 228; C.M. 395. [402] Compare the story of Joseph, Gen. xxxix. [403] Irenæus, Against Heresies, i, 26. [404] Ecce Deus, p. 60. [405] Id. pp. 171-2. [406] Cp. Ecce Deus, p. 26.