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wolf would play the same havoc now, if it could 

 only get its blood-stained jaws free from the 

 muzzle imposed by the secular arm. 



Further, there is not a Protestant body except 

 the Unitarian, which would not declare Justin 

 himself a heretic, on account of his doctrine of the 

 inferior godship of the Logos ; while I am very 

 much afraid that, in strict logic, Dr. Wace would 

 be under the necessity, so painful to him, of call- 

 ing him an " infidel," on the same and on other 

 grounds. 



Now let us turn to our other authority. If 

 there is any result of critical investigations of the 

 sources of Christianity which is certain, 1 it is that 

 Paul of Tarsus wrote the Epistle to the Galatians 

 somewhere between the years 55 and 60 A.D., that 

 is to say, roughly, twenty, or five-and-twenty years 

 after the crucifixion. If this is so, the Epistle to 

 the Galatians is one of the oldest, if not the very 

 oldest, of extant documentary evidences of the 

 state of the primitive Church. And, be it observed, 

 if it is Paul's writing, it unquestionably furnishes 

 us with the evidence of a participator in the 

 transactions narrated. With the exception of two 

 or three of the other Pauline Epistles, there is not 

 one solitary book in the New Testament of the 

 authorship and authority of which we have such 

 good evidence. 



1 I guard myself against being supposed to affirm that even 

 the four cardinal epistles of Paul may not have been seriously 

 tampered with. See note 1, p. 287 above. 



