The criticism which seeks to disintegrate the New Testament writings and set the apostles against one another is founded on a revival of the claim of the Judaizers that their propaganda had the sanction of Peter and the other original apostles. In a Handbook like this it is impossible to discuss at any length the Tuebingen Theory. But some of its points are silently met in the text; and the whole theory is answered by an attempt to give a view of the course of the controversy which covers all the facts. The distinction drawn in paragraphs 159 ff. between the central question in dispute and a subordinate aspect of the controversy will be found to clear up many intricacies. Compare Sorley's _Jewish Christians and Judaism_. This chapter is full of references to passages in Acts and Galatians, which pupils ought to be asked to produce. CHAPTER X Viewpoints for lessons on details omitted or only lightly referred to in the text: Acts xx. 4-16. Paul the Hirer of Laborers for Christ's Vineyard: the Unwearied Preacher (_Troas_). " " 17-38. The Man of Heart (_Miletus_). " xxii. Final Effort to save his Country. " xxiii. 1-10. In the Dock where he had placed others. " xxiii. 22-27. The Preacher of Righteousness. " xxvi. The Inspired Student. " xxvii. Paul as a Ruler of Men. " xxviii. The benevolence of Nature and that of Grace (_Malta_). 171. See notes on ch. iv., p. 141. The authenticity of Ephesians and Colossians can only be denied by ignoring the impression of majesty and profundity which they have made on the greatest minds. (See the Introductions in Meyer and Alford.) What other mind of those ages except Paul's could have erected a structure so magnificent on the very foundations of the Epistle to the Romans? or in what other mind was there such a union of the doctrinal and the ethical? In John's writings the relation of believers to Christ is illustrated by a far higher comparison: it is compared to the union of Father and Son in the Deity. 172. See Ernesti: _The Ethic of Paul_; also Juncker. 174. See Smith's _Voyage of St. Paul_; also Sir William Ramsay's article on Roads and Travel in Hastings' _Dictionary of the Bible_, vol. v. 176. Burrus, the Praetorian Prefect. So Conybeare and Howson; but Ramsay, following Mommsen, holds the officer to have been the princeps peregrinorum, whose quarters lay on the Coelian Hill. On the various kinds of imprisonment in Roman law see Ramsay's _Roman Antiquities_, ch. ix. 177-182. The materials for this account of Paul's prison life at Rome are chiefly gathered from the Epistle to the Philippians. 184. On the genuineness of the Pastoral Epistles see essay by Findley in Sabatier's _The Apostle Paul_. The comparative lack of doctrinal matter in them is accounted for by the fact that they were written to ministers well acquainted with his doctrinal system.