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Excerpt from The Apostolic Age of the Christian Church, Vol. 2 This relation can be deduced from the attitude of the Jewish Christians to Gentile Christianity. The great concession, which was certainly granted to the apostle Paul, could hardly fail to result in a firmer adherence to their own position of fidelity to the law. But, besides, we have to remember that at least a considerable portion of the Church had not supported the concession, and had certainly afterwards not agreed to it. This party now naturally exerted their influence all the more strongly, and indeed used some degree of compulsion, in the same direction. Thus even the events in Antioch are explained. As regards the further course of events, however, we must not forget, to begin with, that we have to consider, not merely the principles of Peter on the one hand, and of James on the other, but that those zealots for the law and against Gentile Christianity without law, formed, side by side with them, an independent party, which hardly felt itself bound by what had taken place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from The Post-Apostolic Age The demand for the series of volumes of which this is one is an interesting witness to an interest ing and significant situation. Church histories have been hitherto of chief if not of exclusive interest to scholars; and even within this narrow circle the demand for merely ecclesiastical histories has been narrower still. But if our age has brought nothing else with it, it has brought an instinct of historic inquiry which has, happily, largely freed itself from partisan or ecclesiastical bias, and which has learned to read and to tell the story of the Christian cen turies in a larger spirit and with a more candid ut terance. To this end the whole tendency of modern schol arship, with its more critical and more independent methods, has happily contributed; and side by side with the growth of a spirit of frank and fearless ia quiry, there has grown up among educated people a more intelligent judgment of historical facts, and more hearty appreciation of every endeavor to as certain them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Apostolic Age of the Christian Church, Vol. 2 The last chapter of the history of the Jewish Christians and the Church in Jerusalem is still more obscure than its earlier period. We have practically no written sources originating from it. Among the books of the New Testament, one, the Epistle of James, bears the name that was then most important for that Church. But not only did the Ebionitic literature of after times regard it with distrust; the ancient Church was also long unable to resolve to recognise it, and we have no reason for differing from its judgment. The Acts turns its attention away from Jerusalem, after the agreement of the primitive apostles with Paul. It follows exclusively the missionary activity of the latter, and even in the passage where it apparently intends to indicate a visit to Jerusalem (xviii. 22), it does not name the city, without doubt because it had no authority for its suggestion, but was merely conjecturing. It is not until the visit actually made by the Apostle, his last, is introduced, that the city is again named (xix. 21, xx. 16, 22) as the goal of his plans. But the narrative of this visit itself (xxi. 15 ff.) does not by any means furnish an accurate or even a distinct view of the circumstances of the Church there. And from the moment of Paul's imprisonment through the hostility of the Jews, it disappears once more and finally from the book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
