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with a completely human being. The divine is to be 

 sought in him only in the form in which it is capable 

 of being found in a man." Of the Fourth Gospel, 

 which he places towards the latter half of the second 

 century, this estimate is given — 



A book which begins by declaring Jesus to be the 

 logos of God, and ends by representing a cohort of 

 Roman soldiers as falling to the ground at the majesty 

 of His appearance, and by representing one hundred 

 pounds of ointment as having been used at His em- 

 balming, ought by these facts alone to be spared such 

 a misunderstanding of its true character as would be 

 implied in supposing that it meant to be a historical 

 work. 



After such strong meat it would seem but the offer- 

 ing of milk to babes for the writers to suggest that 

 the narrative of the blasting of the fig-tree by Jesus 

 has " improbabilities which are obvious and cannot 

 be explained away," or that in the Zaccheus incident 

 " there are difficulties in the way of conceding more 

 than an ideal truth to this delightful story." 



From these concessions there is but a short step to 

 the larger concessions of the school of Schleier- 

 macher, revived by Sabatier, Gardner, and others, who 

 base Christianity on the facts of religious experience, 

 transferring, as the last-named writer explains, " the 

 support of Christian doctrine from history to psychol- 



