Other—­10.  Harmonies of the Gospels—­Relative Size of the Gospels—­II. Matthew—­11.  Personal Notices of Matthew—­12.  Original Language of his Gospel—­The Problem stated—­13.  Testimony of the Ancients on this Point—­14.  Various Hypotheses considered—­15.  Primary Design of this Gospel to show that Jesus of Nazareth was the Promised Messiah—­16.  He is also exhibited as the Saviour of the World—­17.  Fulness of Matthew’s Record in Respect to our Lord’s Discourses—­18.  He does not always follow the Exact Order of Time—­19.  Place and Date—­20.  Integrity—­Genuineness of the First Two Chapters—­III. Mark—­21.  Personal Notices of Mark—­Intimate Relation of Mark to Peter and Paul—­22.  Place—­Date—­Language—­23.  Design of this Gospel to exhibit Jesus as the Son of God—­He makes the Works of Jesus more Prominent than his Discourses—­24.  Characteristics of Mark as a Historian—­25.  Closing Passage in Mark’s Gospel—­IV. Luke—­26.  Notices of Luke in the New Testament—­27.  Sources of his Gospel—­His Relation to Paul—­28.  Date and Place of Writing—­29.  Universal Aspect of Luke’s Gospel—­30.  Its Character and Plan—­Comparison of the Gospels in Respect to Peculiar Matter and Concordances—­31.  Integrity of Luke’s Gospel—­The Two Genealogies of Matthew and Luke—­V. John—­32.  John’s Manner of indicating himself—­33.  Personal Notices of him—­34.  Late Composition of his Gospel and Place of Writing—­35.  Peculiarity of this Gospel in Respect to Subject-Matter—­Its Relation to the First Three Gospels—­36.  General Design of this Gospel—­It is peculiarly the Gospel of Christ’s Person—­VI. Acts of the Apostles—­37.  Author of this Book—­38.  Plan of the Book—­Its First Division; Second Division—­Notices of Antioch—­39.  Office of this Book—­Portraiture of the Apostolic Age of Christianity; Cursory View of the Inauguration of the Christian Church; Various Steps by which the Abolition of the Middle Wall of Partition between Jews and Gentiles was effected—­40.  Concluding Remarks

CHAPTER XXX.

THE EPISTLES OF PAUL—­1.  General Remarks on the Epistles—­2.  Paul’s Epistles all written in the Prosecution of his Work as the Apostle to the Gentiles—­Nature of this Work—­3.  Paul’s Peculiar Qualifications for this Work—­His Mode of Procedure—­Union in him of Firmness and Flexibility—­4.  Character of the Apostle’s Style—­5.  Points to be noticed in the Separate Epistles—­Notices of Paul’s Labors in the Acts of the Apostles—­6.  Present Arrangement of Paul’s Epistles and of the Epistles generally—­Chronological Order of Paul’s Epistles—­Four Groups of these Epistles—­I. Epistle to the Romans—­7.  Date and Place of this Epistle—­8.  Composition of the Roman Church—­9.  Occasion and Design of the Epistle—­Its General Outlines—­10.  Special Office of this Epistle—­II. Epistles to the Corinthians—­First Epistle—­11.  Place and Time of its Composition—­12.