Chapter, Paragraph

 1 Pref |    sermons, letters, revelations, gospels, and acts of the New Testament.
 2  1,2 |         the epistles — and on the gospels that were later written,
 3  1,2 |           of it to survive in the gospels, but New Testament study
 4  1,2 |          is true that the written gospels, when they appeared, sprang
 5  1,2 |       Christians produced written gospels, and then they arose in
 6  1,3 |                       Letters and Gospels.~With the letters of Paul
 7  1,3 |          of Paul and the earliest gospels a new and extraordinary
 8  1,4 |   apologists, and the uncanonical gospels, acts, and apocalypses (
 9  1,4 |    Apostolic Fathers. Uncanonical gospels, acts, and apocalypses are
10  1,4 |   Testament-letters, apocalypses, gospels, and acts. Most of them
11  1,5 |          as letters, revelations, gospels, and acts, with the individual
12  1,6 |           of Paul and of the Four Gospels — that the letter and gospel
13  2,9 |           gathering from the Four Gospels, the Acts, and other sources
14  2,9 |       draws heavily upon the Four Gospels and the Acts and uses the
15  3   |   influence of Paul and the early gospels, and even of the Greek Old
16  3   |          most part, from the Four Gospels. There is also some use
17  3   |          writer's use of the Four Gospels, toward A.D. 120. The book
18  4   |                                   Gospels.~
19  4,1 |                    The Apocryphal Gospels.~ “The church,” said Origen, “
20  4,1 |            said Origen, “has four gospels, the sects very many, one
21  4,2 |         writing of the individual gospels of Mark, Matthew, and John,
22  4,2 |     production of the uncanonical gospels. Luke-Acts was much more
23  4,2 |        The collection of the Four Gospels showed the immense effectiveness
24  4,2 |         the production of further gospels by its closing lines: “There
25  4,2 |    suggest the writing of further gospels; they are part of the epilogue
26  4,2 |           readers of the combined gospels would have known more than
27  4,2 |      familiar with a plurality of gospels, this closing sentence might
28  4,2 |       soon undertook to write new gospels, and none of them seems
29  4,2 |          or more of the canonical gospels. Indeed, they were all in
30  4,2 |          of at least four written gospels obviously called the attention
31  4,2 |     production of the uncanonical gospels.~ The makers of the uncanonical
32  4,2 |         makers of the uncanonical gospels apparently aimed at unifying
33  4,2 |  apparently aimed at unifying the gospels already in existence, ridding
34  4,3 |  Origensaid, “The church has four gospels, the sects very many, one
35  4,3 |         at least four uncanonical gospels that were well known in
36  4,3 |     prominent in other apocryphal gospels.~ As early as about A.D.
37  4,3 |      headed his list of heretical gospels with it. Hippolytus of Rome,
38  4,4 | comparable with those in the Four Gospels. Jesus is reluctant to go
39  4,5 |       agonizing death such as the gospels described led many Christians
40  4,5 |        every one of the canonical gospels, including John 21, is unmistakable.
41  4,5 |          accord with the accepted gospels, but pointing out the heretical
42  4,6 |      rather he condensed the Four Gospels into one, omitting their
43  4,6 |          who, in interweaving the gospels into one, hesitated to add
44  4,6 |          yet come to think of the gospels as scripture, like the Law
45  4,6 |           any of the numerous new gospels mentioned by early Christian
46  4,6 |       surprising to find the Four Gospels in circulation in Egypt
47  4,6 |      seems to have known all four gospels, if not more. In various
48  4,7 |        existence of two different gospels ascribed to Thomas has led
49  4,8 |           as among the schismatic gospels.[14] Nothing, however, is
50  4,9 |           many points by the Four Gospels, which it was. written to
51  4,9 |     Christian claim that the Four Gospels were the work “of the apostles
52  4,9 |           not only used the Greek gospels in writing their gospel
53  4,10|         considerable list of such gospels, calling it the “Gospel
54  4,10|          the Less.”~ We have seen gospels that were written to support
55  4,10|        the use of all four of our gospels as well.~ This little work,
56  4,10|            Two explicitly Gnostic gospels were fairly well known to
57  4,10|      shows no agreement with the “gospels of the apostles,” and indeed
58  4,10|         Among the less well-known gospels produced in Gnostic circles
59  4,12|         preserved in the Synoptic Gospels and presumably come either
60  4,12| presumably come either from these gospels or from oral tradition or
61  4,14|                             Other Gospels.~ Among the Gnostic documents
62  4,14|        been based on the church's gospels, not his own. On the other
63  4,14|           seems likely that other gospels ascribed to heresiarchs,
64  5,1 |     apocryphal acts.~ If the Four Gospels seemed to their early readers
65  5,1 |        the collection of the Four Gospels, the second volume was left
66  5,5 |       shows knowledge of the Four Gospels and the letters of Paul,
67  5,6 |          interweaving of the Four Gospels, about A.D. 172, and Bardaisan,
68  6,2 |       also familiar with the Four Gospels, the principal letters of
69  6,2 |         with Christian books-five gospels, the principal Pauline letters,
70  7,3 |         The influence of the Four Gospels is clearly seen in Aristides'
71  8,3 |          interweaving of the Four Gospels into one continuous narrative.
72  8,3 |          up and replaced with the gospels of the four evangelists.
73  8,3 |       takes the place of the Four Gospels in the Codex Fuldensis,
74  8,4 |          as he who has gnawed the gospels to pieces?”~ Hippolytus,
75  8,4 |       idea of treating either the gospels or the Pauline epistles
76  8,4 |      would neglect the use of the gospels as scripture in Barnabas
77  9,2 |           on the narrative of the gospels about the resurrection of
78  9,3 |         had a high regard for the gospels and once definitely coordinated
79  9,3 |           quotation of one of the gospels that has come down to us;
80 10,2 |        Old Testament and the Four Gospels (iii. II. 8) but the Acts (
81 10,2 |          of twenty-two books-four gospels, the Acts, thirteen letters
82 12,7 |      books Origen listed the Four Gospels, fourteen letters of Paul (
83 13,8 |    Irenaeus. He accepted the Four Gospels as scripture and acknowledged
84 14,7 |    Tertullian's included the Four Gospels, the Acts, and thirteen
85 14,14|       John. It contained the Four Gospels, the Acts, thirteen letters
86 14,17|        with the Bible, except the Gospels. Arnobius had read Plato
87 15,1 |          Book” (probably the Four Gospels).~ ~
88 15,4 |           letters of Paul-and the gospels, would not provide a very