HISTORY OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURES OF THE NEW TESTAMENT BY EDUARD (WILHELM EUGEN) REUSS PROFESSOR ORDINARIUS IN THE EVANGELICAL THEOLOGICAL FACULTY OF THE TRANSLATED FROM THE FIFTH REVISED AND ENLARGED Copyright, 1884, BY EDWARD L. HOUGHTON. All rights reserved. The Riverside Press, Cambridge: 14329 свад i 2 BOOK SECOND. HISTORY OF THE COLLECTION OF THE SACRED SCRIP- HISTORY OF THE CANON. 281. The Apostles and the first Christians in general continued to use the books of the Old Testament for the purpose of religious instruction. They did this not merely from custom, and so long as they had not formally separated themselves from the synagogue, but also because they found in these books the authentic confirmation of the faith which the discourses, miracles, and resurrection of Jesus had awakened and nourished in them. For precisely the same reason they came to be known and used from the very first among the Gentile Christians, since the preaching of the Apostles was based chiefly upon the predictions of the prophets, and upon the close and higher connection between the earlier revelations and the things which had come to pass in these last days. On this whole book cf. my more detailed treatise: Histoire du Canon des S. Ecritures dans l'Eglise chrétienne (Nouvelle Revue, Vols. VI., IX., X., 1860 ff.), also separately, Str. (1863), 2d ed. 1864. With the above cf. § 30. Examples in proof from the Acts, all the Gospels, the Epistles of James, Peter, to the Hebrews, Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, and the Apocalypse; also from Clement, Barnabas, and later writers. No difference of method of preaching in this respect can be shown, corresponding either with the different theological tendencies in the Apostolic Church or with the different elements of the churches. Even the Pauline school, notwithstanding its other declarations respecting the validity of the Law, was obliged to rest upon the Old Testament, see especially Gal. iii. 19 ff.; this it could do entirely without danger to its fundamental principles, see § 505. Cf. also the expositors on 2 Tim. iii. 16. Catalogues of the quotations from the Old Testament in the New (rivağ μapтuρiv), sometimes also of the mere allusions, are found in many of the older editions of the text (e. g. in the larger editions of Stephens and most of the Elzevirs, § 404 f.) and versions, and still in the N. T. of Knapp and others; also, separately, complete, in E. Leigh, Critica s. N. T., Index III.; L. D. Cramer, Bibliologia N. T. (L. 1819 ff., 4°), Pts. II.-IV.; Bialloblotzky, De legis mosaica abrogatione (Gött. 1824, 4°), p. 162 ff.; Doepke, Hermeneutik der neutest. Schriftsteller (L. 1829, 8°), pp. 189-288; R. Stier's Bibl. Theologie, p. 452 ff.; E. Haupt, Die Citate in den Evv., Colb. 1871. [Tables of these quotations, arranged in the order of the N. T. passages, in the Introtroductions of Horne and Davidson. A fuller table, embracing even verbal |