CHAPTER II.

The life of Christ.

The date of the Birth of Christ, 14 The place of His Birth, ib.  The visit of the angel to the shepherds, 15 The visit of the Magi—­the flight into Egypt—­and the murder of
    the infants at Bethlehem, ib. 
The presentation in the Temple, 16 The infancy and boyhood of Jesus, 17 His baptism and entrance upon His public ministry, 18 His mysterious movements, 19 The remarkable blanks in the accounts given of Him in the Gospels, 20 His moral purity, 21 His doctrine and His mode of teaching, 22 His miracles, 23 The independence of His proceedings as a reformer, 25 The length of His ministry, 26 The Sanhedrim and Pontius Pilate, 27 The Death of Christ, and its significance, 28 His Resurrection, and His appearance afterwards only to His own
    followers, 29
His Ascension, 30 His extraordinary character, 31 supplementary note on the year of the Birth of Christ, 32

CHAPTER III.

The twelve and the seventy.

Our Lord during His short ministry trained eighty-two preachers—­the
    Twelve and the Seventy, 36
Various names of some of the Twelve, 37
Relationship of some of the parties, 39
Original condition of the Twelve, ib. 
Various characteristics of the Twelve, 40
Twelve, why called Apostles, 42
Typical meaning of the appointment of the Twelve and the Seventy, 43
In what sense the Apostles founded the Church, 45
Why so little notice of the Seventy in the New Testament, 46
No account of ordinations of pastors or elders by the Twelve or
    the Seventy, 47
No succession from the Twelve or Seventy can be traced, 48
In what sense the Twelve and Seventy have no successors, and in
    what sense they have, 50