70/73 It is with me no mere "suspicion," but a certainty. When they cannot possibly give, or pretend, any _proof_ that the long discourses of the fourth gospel have been accurately reported, they ought to be less supercilious in their claims of unlimited belief. If it is right for them to follow their judgment on a purely literary question, let them not carp at me for following mine.] [Footnote 23: I am told that this defence of John is fanciful. It satisfies me provisionally; but I do not hold myself bound to satisfy others, or to explain John's delusiveness.] [Footnote 24: Phil.ii. 5-8; Rom.xv.3.The last suggests it was from the Psalms (viz from Ps.lxix. |