The New Testament in the Apostolic fathers

LIBRARYTORONTOShelf No. 6SNo.Register..19r"N ENEW ESTAMENrAPOSTOLIC FA ERSBYA COMMITTEE OF THE OXFORD SOCIETYOF HISTORICAL THEOLOGYOXFORDTHE CLARENDON PRESSAT1905HENRY M.A.FROWDE,PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORDEDINBURGHLONDON,NEW YORK AND TORONTOPREFACETHIS work had its in a resolution bv theorigin passedERRATAline readPige 51, n,/or passage Epistlereadfar54, 25, (48) (49)insert60, 15, Polycarp before (75)read/or Smyrn.73, 32, Symrn.26oii7 Luke as also80, 24, 9 ;read81, 2, /or ^v 77Mts sentence should onfollow8l, 7, (97)from read/or83, 4 bottom, (93) (92)2 from readfor 123 125in Fathers.N.T. Apostolicuseful but afford him some indirectionmaterial, helpfulhis own conclusions.reachingThe first of the Committee was to aduty agree upon plan.It was decided to the books of the New Testament inarrangefour the letters andclasses, A, B, C, D,distinguished byto the of of their use theaccording degree probability byseveral authors. Class A includes those books about whichthere can be no reasonable either because aredoubt, theyor there are other certain indicabecausementioned,expresslyBtions of their use. Class those books the use ofcomprisesin the of the areacheswhich, editors,judgement high degreeof With class C we come to a lower ofprobability. degreeand in class D are those books which;probability placed mayin thebe referred but to which evidenceto,possibly regardtoo uncertain to allow reliance to beappeared any placed ...