the eyes

opinions and those of the early catholic Christians, p. 245.

Views of the author of the Clementine Homilies, pp. 245 - 247. — Modes by which the catholic Christians solved the difficulties which they felt in the Old Testament, pp. 247 - 272. — They applied to the Logos those representations of God in the Old Testament which they thought unworthy of God, pp. 247 - 253. Tertullian's notion, that it was characteristic of the dispensations of God to use means ignoble and foolish in

of men, pp. 253 – 255. — The fathers generally solved the difficulties of the Old Testament by the allegorical mode of interpretation, pp. 255 - 272. — This mode of interpretation rejected by the Marcionites, and not thus applied to the Old Testament by the theosophic Gnostics, pp. 272, 273. — The proper Christian Gnostics regarded it as impossible, that the God of the Old Tes. tament and the God of Christians should be the same being, pp. 273-275. The extraordinary character of the fact, that the catholic Christians adopted the notions of the Jews respecting the Old Testament, pp. 275 – 277. - The fundamental difference between them and the Gnostics consisted in their different opinions concerning Judaism and the author of the Jewish dispensation, pp. 277, 278. — Reference to Additional Note D for a discussion of the manner in which the Jewish dispensation and the books of the Old Testament should be regarded, p. 272.

ADDITIONAL NOTES.

NOTE Α.
ON THE STATUE WHICH IS SAID BY Justin MARTYR,
AND OTHERS, TO HAVE BEEN ERECTED AT ROME TO
SIMON MAGUS

iii

NOTE C.

ON THE FALSE CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST THE HER-

ETICS, PARTICULARLY BY THE LATER FATHERS xxxvii

.

NOTE D.

On The Jewish DispensaTION, THE PENTATEUCH, AND

THE OTHER Books OF THE OLD TESTAMENT,

xlviii

SECTION II.

On the Evidences and the Design of the Jewish Dis-

pensation .

lxii

SECTION III.

On the Historical Evidence respecting the Authorship

of the Pentateuch

Ixviii

SECTION IV.

Some general Considerations respecting the Authorship

of the Pentateuch

с

On the Views of Religion presented in the Writings of

the Jewish Prophets, and in the Psalms, compared

with those found in the Pentateuch .

CXXXV

SECTION VII.

On the Inferences respecting the Levitical Law and

the Pentateuch, to be drawn from the Teaching and

Actions of our Saviour

cxlix

SECTION VIII.

On the other Books of the Old Testament beside those

of the Pentateuch

clxxx

SECTION IX.

Concluding Remarks

PART III.

ON THE EVIDENCE FOR THE GENUINENESS OF THE GOSPELS

AFFORDED BY THE EARLY HERETICS.