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27 Christologie des A. T. s. 1, b, s. 47. ↑

28 See Winer, Grammatik des neutest. Sprachidioms, 3te Aufl. s. 382 ff. Fritzsche, Comm. in Matth. p. 49. 317 und Excurs. 1, p. 836 ff. ↑

29 See the Introduction, § 14. ↑

30 See Bleek in den theol. Studien u. Kritiken, 1835, 2, s. 441 ff. ↑

31 The whole rationalistic interpretation of Scripture rests upon a sufficiently palpable paralogism, by which it stands or falls:

The New Testament authors are not to be interpreted as if they said something irrational (certainly not something contrary to their own modes of thinking).

Now according to a particular interpretation their assertions are irrational (that is contrary to our modes of thinking).

Consequently the interpretation cannot give the original sense, and a different interpretation must be given.

Who does not here perceive the quaternio terminorum and the fatal inconsequence, when Rationalism takes its stand upon the same ground with supernaturalism; that, namely, whilst with regard to all other men the first point to be examined is whether they speak or write what is just and true, to the New Testament writers the prerogative is granted of this being, in their case, already presupposed? ↑

32 Conjugial. præcept. Opp. ed. Hutton, Vol. 7. s. 428. ↑

33 Irenäus, adv. haer. 1, 26: Cerinthus, Jesum subjecit non ex virgine natum, impossibile enim hoc ei visum est. ↑

34 In Henke’s neuem Magazin, iii. 3, s. 369. ↑

35 Homil. in Lucam xiv. Comp. my Streitschriften, i. 2, s. 72 f. ↑

36 Olshausen, Bibl. Comm. s. 49. Neander, L. J. Ch. s. 16 f. ↑

37e.g. by Eichhorn, Einleitung in das N. T. 1. Bd. s. 407. ↑

38 Glaubenslehre, 2 Thl. § 97. s. 73 f. der zweiten Auflage. ↑

39 This side is particularly considered in der Skiagraphie des Dogma’s von Jesu übernatürlicher Geburt, in Schmidt’s Bibliothek, i. 3, s. 400 ff.; in den Bemerkungen über den Glaubenspunkt: Christus ist empfangen vom heil. Geist, in Henke’s neuem Magazin, iii. 3, 365 ff.; in Kaiser’s bibl. Theol. 1, s. 231 f.; De Wette’s bibl. Dogmatik, § 281; Schleiermacher’s Glaubenslehre, 2 Thl. § 97. ↑

40 Brought to bear upon this point by Neander, L. J. Ch. s. 12. ↑

41 Augustinus contra Faustum Manichaeum, L. 23. 3. 4. 8. ↑

42 See Schmidt, Schleiermacher, and Wegscheider, Instit. § 123 (not. d). ↑

43 Eichhorn thinks this probable, Einl. in das N. T. i. s. 425, De Wette possible, exeg. Handb. i. 1, s. 7. ↑

44 Justin Mart. Dial. cum Tryphone, 48; Origines contra Celsum, L. 5, 61. Euseb. H. E. 3, 27. ↑

45 Epiphan. haeres. 30, 14. ↑

46 Haeres. 29, 9. ↑

47 Credner, in den Beiträgen zur Einleitung in das N. T. 1, s. 443. Anm. ↑

48 Orig. ut sup. ↑

49 See Neander, K. G. 1, 2, s. 615 f. ↑

50Credner, über Essener, und einen theilweisen Zusammenhang beider, in Winer’s Zeitschrift f. wissenschaftliche Theologie, 1. Bd. 2tes and 3tes Heft; see Baur, Progr. de Ebionitarum origine et doctrinâ ab Essenis repetendâ, und christl. Gnosis, s. 403. ↑

51De carne Christi, c. 14: Poterit haec opinio Hebioni convenire, qui nudum hominem, et tantum ex semine David, i.e. non et Dei filium, constituit Jesum, ut in illo angelum fuisse edicat. ↑

52 Neander and Schneckenburger are of the latter, Gieseler and Credner of the former opinion. ↑

53 I here refer to the account of Hegesippus in Eusebius, H. E. iv. 22. ↑

54 Homil. 3, 23–27. ↑

55 Epiphan. haeres. 30, 18. comp. 15. ↑

56 That these were the traits in David’s character which displeased the Christian sect in question, is sufficiently evident from a passage in the Clementine Homilies, though the name is not given: Homil. 3, 25; ἕτι μὴν καὶ οἱ ἀπὸ θης τούτου (τοῦ Καΐν) διαδοχης προεληλυθότες πρωτοι μοιχοὶ ἐγένοντο, καὶ ψαλτήρια, καὶ κιθάραι, καὶ χαλκεῖς ὅπλων πολεμικῶν ἐγένοντο. Δὶ ὃ καὶ ἡ τῶν ἐγγὁνων προφητεία, μοιχῶν καὶ ψαλτηρίων γέμουσα, λανθανόντως διὰ τῶν ἡδυπαυειων ὡς τοὺς πολέμους ἐγείρει. ↑

57 Epiphan. haer. 30, 14. 16. 34. ↑

58 Homil. 3, 17. ↑

59 Schneckenburger, über das Evang. der Aegypter, s. 7; Baur, christl. Gnosis, s. 760 ff. See on the other side Credner and Hoffmann. ↑

60 Orig. Comm. in Matth. T. 16, 12. Tertullian, De carne Christi, 14, s. Anm. 13 (a passage in which indeed the speculative and ordinary Ebionites are mingled together). ↑

61 Clement, homil. 18, 13. They referred the words of Matth. xi. 27: οὐδεὶς ἔγνω τὸν πατέρα, εἰ μὴ ὁ υἱὸς κ.τ.λ. to τοὺς πατέρα νομίζοντας χριστοῦ τὸν Δαβὶδ, καὶ αὐτὸν δὲ τὸν χριστὸν υἱὸν ὄντα, καὶ υἱὸν θεοῦ μὴ ἐγνωκότας, and complained that αἰτὶ τοῦ θεοῦ τὸν Δαβὶδ πάντες ἔλεγον. ↑

62 Haeres. 30, 14: ὁ μὲν γὰρ Κήρινθος καὶ Κάρποκρας τῷ αὐτῷ χρώμενοι παρ’ αὐτοῖς (τοῖς Ἑβιωναίοις) εὐαγγελίῳ, ἀπὸ τῆς ἀρχις τοῦ κατὰ Ματθαῖον εὐαγγελίου διὰ τῆς γενεαλογίας Βούλονται παριστᾷν ἐκ σπέρματος Ἰωσὴφ καὶ Μαρίας εἶναι τὸν χριστόν. ↑