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[346:1] _Strom_.ii.

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[347:1] In a volume entitled _The Authorship and Historical Character of the Fourth Gospel_, Macmillan, 1872.

I may say with reference to this book--a 'firstling' of theological study-- that I am inclined now to think that I exaggerated somewhat the importance of minute details as an evidence of the work of an eye-witness.

The whole of the arguments, however, summarised on pp.

287-293 seem to me to be still perfectly valid and sound, and the greater part of them--notably that which relates to the Messianic expectations--is quite untouched by 'Supernatural Religion.' [348:1] It is instructive to compare the canons elaborately drawn up by Mr.M'Clellan (_N.T._ i.