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Some of these critics write as if they understood the Gospels. We 

 certainly can understand much, but if anybody can fully understand 

 them he must be as great as the Christ of Whom they tell. With 

 reference to the author's remark that Germany owes much to 

 English critics, I am reminded of Dr. Hobart, whose authority 

 on the medical words used in St. Luke's Gospel and the Acts is 

 recognized as being of the highest. The history of St. Paul's 

 voyage has been studied by a Scotchman, Mr. Jordan Smith, who 

 sailed over the whole course, and who says that the story can only 

 have been written by an eye-witness and one who was a landsman. 

 He also made an invaluable comparison of the Gospels in his 

 Harmonies of the Gospels. 



I should like to make the suggestion that the last chapter of 

 St. Mark may really have been written by him, but the 

 mass of the Gospel written by St. Peter himself. These 

 facts, worked out by English scholars, are too often ignored 

 to-day, but will go far to explain the difficulties which perplex us ; 

 but the general results are very encouraging. The picture of Our 

 Lord as told in the Gospel holds its own. Every assault against 

 their historical truth has failed. Time has been on the side of the 

 conservative views. One great advantage in German criticism is 

 that a later critic is invariably found to dispose of the earlier one. 

 " The children devour their parents," but in saying this I would 

 emphatically say that there is in Germany a devout criticism of a 

 highly valuable order. 



Dr. Eugene Stock thanked Colonel Mackinlay for his invitation to 

 attend this meeting. Recently he had been making a special study of 

 the Pastoral Epistles, and it was delightful to him as an amateur to find 

 his conclusions confirmed by so eminent a scholar. He would like 

 to mention one fact — the expression " Christ Jesus " is exclusively a 

 Pauline one. There are four exceptions in the Authorized Version 

 where " Jesus Christ " is used instead, but the Revised Version 

 changes all these to " Christ Jesus." This phrase is found in the 

 Pastoral epistles just as frequently as in the rest. He expressed his 

 deep indebtedness to Canon Knowling for his paper. As to the 

 authorship of St. John he wished to recommend a series of articles 

 by Canon Scott Holland in the magazine of the Student Movement. 

 He also referred to an old book by T. R. Birks called Horce 

 Apocalypticce, which has lately been republished. 



