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All the events said to have been witnessed by John alone are omitted by John alone. This fact seems fatal either to the reality of the events in question or to the genuineness of the Fourth Gospel.

William Rathbone Greg

The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position.

William Rathbone Greg

William Rathbone Greg

William Rathbone Greg

Born: 1809

Died: November 15, 1881 (aged 72)

Bio: William Rathbone Greg was an English essayist.

Known for:

Creed Of Christendom (1850)
Enigmas of Life (1872)
Literary and social judgments
Political Problems For Our Age And Country

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