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History of the Sacred Scriptures of the New Testament.
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The Evolution of Christianity.
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As It Is In Heaven. The Unseen Friend. At the Beautiful Gate.
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Footnotes

1.
This, like most other utterances of Jesus, found in this book but not in the Gospels, is also found in the early patristic literature.—Ed.
2.
Ὄχλος τοῦ ἀγροῦ, seemingly the translation of the Hebrew עם הארץ used for those unlearned in the Law; this term seems to have passed through much the same history as “pagan.”Ed.
3.
Each of the Jewish rabbis used to sum up his teaching in some pregnant sentence. These are given in the Talmudic treatise, The Ethics of the Fathers.—Ed.
4.
José ben Joeser said, “Let thy place be a place of meeting for the wise; dust thyself with the dust of their feet, and drink greedily of their teaching” (Pirke Aboth, i. 4).—Ed.
5.
The rabbis use this expression, Bath Kol, for any supernatural revelation.—Ed.
6.
This Logion is only found elsewhere in one MS. of the Gospels, viz., in the Codex Bezæ at Cambridge.—Ed.
7.
It must have been from a report of this discourse, and that given on p. 92, that the majority of those utterances of Jesus have been derived which are known in modern theology as “Agrapha.”Ed.
8.
The gospel version reads “Samaritan.”Ed.
9.
See note on p. 42.—Ed.
10.
Bar Abba means “son of his father.”
11.
Bar Amma means “son of his mother.”Ed.
12.
Probably the so-called Primitive Gospel, the common foundation of our Synoptics. But the date is somewhat early.—Ed.