New-York tribune., 1896-05-05
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THOCGHT OF THEM TEST4AbaI
THE LAST OF PROFESSOR TOYS LEcIu"A'
ON BIBLICAL SUBJECTS.

Professor CRAWFORD Howell Toy. OF HaTVara !.
livered the last of series OF three lectures .rA
Lenox Avenue Unitarian Church. Leiiox-a'e' SDs
twenty -irst-st.. last evehins' ,
Last nights lecture which was pos'po 20
April 20. on account OF the professors lihess "a
upon THE Thought OF the New Testament 49, y
dealt with the teaching of Jesus. His coneep,', ,ss
His own mission. the Synoptc GcspeA rAu-
Apocalypse and the fourth Gospel.
Professor Toy spoke In part as follows ,u.
Christianity represents the fusion OF the ewnrS The
portsnt regSns lon Of the anreTt Tese,n began with
teaching Of Jewish moral-regi9ns a'n9s seems
ing whose lifetime no ssorS d. OF Isaib ai his
istic teaching. proclaimed by his Disciples At Of
fully impressed certain minds especially sdSd Hebrew
learning with some knowledge OF Greek ,ss,'S 10
Carrying out logically the positions .s Of to tie
tiles He found occasion to write to the saTainss
which I Ssa sssS.GsH Ss Ss, sS Ta5s 5s hsd aSp to
truth. Hence. as far as we know the bginnntse rote
Christian tsrasars Being a, cOrn5n rSssh hs n TSssa
onioa Thess This was quickly OiiSwssaia Ds and
Epistle to the Galatians and II Srd pSilemon
Tness II, sensray wa rhRsafe S
Second Thessalonians probably belongs
E GphaSs ss SsT has ss1
Ep;sles and II Tim. Titus, belong srs 70 s0 sso ws
should put the Epistle to the Hebrews wnhi rnshieous.
some Pauline ideas. has conceptions pou o. To thle
period belong further the so-called Catna ,ater fal
IL and II Potter. Jude. James,, and ntSII SSIIahn The
the three letters which bear the name OF ~ marked
chief s.edia OF New Testament thougnt a,I FORM
by the disco irses OF Jesus I'm their orisnn,rsd e
far as that can be with probability the 0os
letters OF Paul the Pastoral Eplsties anu ansral %:
pei and Epstlcs OF John There Is a socgicaI ~
vance from religious simplicity 10 theo'oe
ecclesiastical complexity c,on,,c Gospe
The difficult problem Of the synops,sSa ms con-
Matt. Mark. Luke. though 1t Is py n, n,eared Up
pletely solved has yet been somewnah, a. nriorty n
According to the prevailing opinion tne p simple
time Is to be assigned to Mark. VINO sMomnnsratvey
account OF the dongs or Jesus WIN h ,,naenuiae
little mention OF His sayings texcept ti,,hew ts uses
apocalyptio discourse at the endl' iinh Mark u
Mark (or possibly documents from m, Wm,e ~ Jesus
drawn) and a collection OF the ssy,n5 ma rsny an
Luke uses this same material and Generally
said to be Jewish Tristan in tone ana Lamtiorsy
inc; but this distinction has TO pe nau nresent form
The SynoptIc Gospels received thsir pa,sm by tho
about the time OF the capture osd o. in the neNE
Romans A. d. 20. They were ioiIowgfo ioiI,f. " an appafe
generation BY the Acts OF the APos.e; ;rsditto 10
entity composite book (assiSned sr,s Ds a 20 contain
Luke, and the Apocalypse WHEN seei,3 was wit,
both Jewish and Christian sections, az a t,r,e under
ten to console the Christians OF 'ha' '''''S n .
persecution. =, tho New Testameps
are the Gospels and Ep!stles OF So,nii ni,b mesSre
is an idealisng picture OF Jesus; IN" noInt OF Hsw
basis Of fact and composed IRON hilosophy ,I rspt
Of the Alexandran-Je sh-Greek pn''s0S''s X
sented BY Phtlo.