The Lost and Hostile Gospels: An Essay on the Toledoth Jeschu, and the Petrine and Pauline Gospels of the First Three Centuries of Which Fragments RemainBaring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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The Lost and Hostile Gospels: An Essay on the Toledoth Jeschu, and the Petrine and Pauline Gospels of the First Three Centuries of Which Fragments Remain
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Apocryphal Gospels
Matt. iv. 15. Here the LXX. is not followed, for the word γῆ is used in
place of χώρα. The quotation is not, moreover, taken exactly from Isaiah,
but apparently from a Targum.
Matt. viii. 17. This quotation is nearer the original Hebrew than the
rendering of the LXX.
Matt. xii. 18‐21. In this citation we have an incorrect rendering of the
Hebrew לתורתו “at his teaching,” made by the LXX. “in his name,” adopted
without hesitation by the compiler. He also accepts the erroneous
rendering of “islands,” made “nation,” “Gentiles,” by the LXX.
But, on the other hand, “till he send forth judgment unto victory,” is
taken from neither the original Hebrew nor from the LXX., and is probably
derived from a Targum.
Thus in this passage we have apparently a combination of two somewhat
similar accounts—the one in Greek, the other in Aramaic.
Matt. xiii. 35. This also is a compound text. The first half is from the
LXX., but the second member is from a Hebrew Targum.
Matt. xxvii. 3. In the Hebrew, the field is not a “potter’s,” nor is it in
the LXX., who use χωνευτήριον “the smelting‐furnace.” The word in the
Hebrew signifies “treasury.” The composer of the Gospel, therefore must
have quoted from a Targum, and been ignorant both of the genuine Hebrew
Scriptures and of the Greek translation of the Seventy.
These instances are enough to show that the material used for the
compilation of the first Canonical Gospel was very various; that the
author had at his disposal matter in both Aramaic and Greek.
We shall find, on looking further, that he inserted two narratives of the
same event in his Gospel in different places, if they differed slightly
from one another, when coming to him from different sources.
The following are parallel passages:
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