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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1894. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE GENUINENESS AND AUTHENTICITY OF THE ACTS. After finishing our survey of the book, we have now to consider the difficult question of its genuineness and authenticity. In critical terminology, by the genuineness of a work is meant that it was written by the author whose name it bears, while authenticity relates solely to the accuracy and fulness with which it presents the facts that come within its scope. Keeping this distinction in mind, we ask first, Was the Acts written by its alleged author? The only claim of authorship which the book itself makes is that it was written by the same hand as the Third Gospel (i. 1; cf. Luke i. 1-4). Since the latter book does not claim unique or even apostolic authority, no reason appears why an independent author should have sought to gain additional credence for his work by allying it falsely with the Gospel. Unless, therefore, there is strong internal evidence that the two cannot have proceeded from the same hand, we shall not be justified in setting aside the claim which the Acts makes for itself. At the outset we discovered a marked discrepancy between the Gospel and the Acts regarding the time of the Ascension (p. 3), which undoubtedly makes against identity of authorship. If, however, we may suppose that some little time elapsed between the two books, or that in the second a tradition was followed, without remark, different from that adopted in the Gospel, the divergence would be less important. That our author is not particularly scrupulous about self-contradictions has appeared in our study of the accounts of Paul's conversion (pp. 46, 123). On the other hand, the Acts shows so many points of fundamental agreement with the Gospel that most critics have ascribed them to the same author. I. The linguistic peculiaritie...
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