Excerpt from Christ in Art: The Story of the Words and Acts of Jesus Christ, as Related in the Language of the Four Evangelists, Arranged in One Continuous Narrative Assuming from this point that principles, clearly de ducible from a great variety of facts, and so generally applic able, must be right, and that the failure of their application must be due to some entirely abnormal arrangement peculiar to the middle portion of the Gospels, I was soon able to ascertain the exact manner in which the apparent inconsistency would be removable, and eventually to localize and define the exact limits of what was ab normal, and to see how the offending arrangement, with all the well-nigh inextricable complications it involved, was undoubtedly caused. I found that in one particular, S. Luke's Gospel was demonstrably not in the order, in which, from overwhelm ing internal and external evidence, it must have been written. The alteration which had been made stood out as clearly revealed as though the arguments, by which some early revisers had justified it, came floating down the cen turies no less audibly than when they first propounded them to their contemporaries. Nay, the mistake was evidently of such a plausible and inviting character that, especially in an age of mss., it was not only very likely to be made, but was so apparently necessary, that, when once made, it would be almost certain to have the effect of dis crediting correct mss. And to establish itself as the true reading. 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.