Horae Paulinae A New Edition

Author : William Paley
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ISBN 13 : 9781331859994
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book Horæ Paulinæ; Or, the Truth of the Scripture History of St. Paul Evinced written by William Paley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Horae Paulinae; Or, the Truth of the Scripture History of St. Paul Evinced: By a Comparison of the Epistles Which Bear His Name With the Acts of the Apostles, and With One Another The Horae Paulinae, ever since its first appearance, has maintained a high and deserved reputation, not only as a decisive argument for the genuineness of St. Paul's epistles, and the fidelity of St. Luke's narrative, but as a pattern of sagacious and discriminating historical criticism. The strong proof deducible from undesigned coincidences between separate documents, to establish their authenticity, though it must have been felt by many, and may have been partially traced by others in this very case, had never before received so striking a development. No candid reader, after a perusal of the work, can escape the full conviction that the Acts of the Apostles, and the epistles of St. Paul, forming together nearly one half of the New Testament, could neither be the result of fraud on the part of contemporary authors, nor have an artificial origin in later times, but are certainly what they bear upon their face, a genuine history, and authentic letters of the great apostle of the Gentiles. The present edition of the work embraces several distinct, but kindred objects. First of all, it has been endeavoured to offer such partial corrections of the original treatise, as further study of the subject, aided by the light of more recent criticism, appeared to require. Secondly and principally, it seemed desirable to extend the argument still further, to glean many coincidences which Paley had overlooked, and to extend the inquiry to the Four Gospels. The Horae Apostolicae, which forms the second half of this volume, is the fruit of that design. 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."