The Bearing of Recent Discovery On the Trustworthiness of the New Testament
The Bearing of Recent Discovery On the Trustworthiness of the New Testament
Ramsay, William Mitchell, Sir, 1851- [from Old Catalog]
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That Luke, without possessing any true historical in* stinct (such as was the heritage of the Gredcs, making them seek after and value for its own sake historical truth), yet had a certain untrained craving for a historical setting to his story ; that he cast about in the past, to search for some- thing suitable as a historical background ; and that finding a census recorded as occurring in A.D. 6-7, he todc diis and transferred it to a different time. It is not made quite clear whether the arg...ument is that Luke committed this blunder from pure chronological inability and historical ignorance, fancying that it afforded some explanation, or that he de- liberately and knowingly transferred the census to a wrong time ; the commoner view seems to be that he acted through ignorance and incapacity. 2. That Luke invented without any authority the state- Digitized by VjOOQIC 252 XIX. Lukes Account of ment that Augustus ordered a census or enrolment of the whole Empire to be made ; there could (as these writers assume) be no record of such an impossible act, but Luke isupposed that the order of Augustus ^ regarding the Pales- tinian census of A.D.
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