THESSALONIANS (Paul); the "second" epistle is really first, and is to be dated about A.D. 52. The so-called "first" epistle was some six months later, in A.D. 58.

CORINTHIANS (Paul); the first epistle in the spring of A.D. 57. The second near the end of the same year.

GALATIANS (Paul); A.D. 58, prior to Romans. ROMANS (Paul); A.D. 58.

PHILEMON (Paul); A.D. 62. The first letter written by Paul in prison at Rome.

COLOSSIANS (Paul, in prison at Rome, within about a year of his death); A.D. 62.

PHILIPPIANS (Paul, his last epistle, near the end of his life); A.D. 62 or 63.

-HEBREWS (most probably by Apollos); probable date A.D. 66.

JAMES (not by the man whose name it bears, James having been put to death A.D. 62 or 63); most probable date A.D. 68; and ascribed to James by an unknown writer.

REVELATION (by the apostle John, and the only book by him; the fourth gospel and three epistles merely borrowing his name); written under Galba, who was emperor a few months of A.D. 68, after Nero's death.

EPHESIANS (by an unknown person inferior to Paul, who borrowed his name, and repeated a good deal from Colossians); probable date A.D.

75.

FIRST PETER (not by Peter who is last heard of under Paul's rebuke at Antioch; but by a writer who borrows Peter's name, and whose object was a conciliatory exposition of the practical side of Paulinism); may be dated between A.D. 75 and A.D. 80.

JUDE (not by the apostle Jude, but by Jude brother to James); about A.D. 80.

MATTHEW (the apostle of this name wrote in Aramean a Gospel of the Hebrews or the Nazarenes. This became the basis merely, with many changes and much enlargement, for a gospel in Greek, which finally took the form of our present gospel, after successive modifications by unknown hands, which gathered in oral sayings, apocryphal narratives, mythic elements, with the more authentic original matter); the final form may be dated about A.D. 100.

LUKE (by a writer who borrowed the name of

Luke, and who used the materials of the first gospel, and ideas drawn from Paul's writings;

is less historical than the first gospel, and has fewer original traditions; gives facts and discourses in a less primitive and faithful form; and changes the view of Christ to make him a divinity rather than a teacher of divine truth; a decidedly Pauline tendency appears); probable date A.D. 115.

MARK (the real Mark wrote notes of Peter's teaching, in an unconnected and anecdotical form, of little value. The name of this was borrowed by an unknown writer, who perhaps used Mark's notes a little, but who chiefly compiled from Matthew and Luke. Instead of Christ being a man elevated to be a divinity, as Luke left the idea, Mark brings out more the idea of a being by nature between the Father and the angels, -a superhuman nature being ascribed to Christ while on earth); may be dated about A.D. 120. TITUS; SECOND TIMOTHY (was really first) and FIRST TIMOTHY (the three by a Pauline writer, who borrowed Paul's name); about A.D. 120.

ACTS (by the unknown author of the third gospel); about A.D. 125. The author speaks as if he were Luke, or at least a companion of Paul. This method of writing was very common at this time, and was regarded as perfectly proper and laudable.

FIRST JOHN (epistle; by an unknown writer who borrowed the garb of John in his old age; not the same as the author of the fourth gospel); about A.D. 130.

SECOND AND THIRD JOHN (epistles; by a "John the elder"; not the apostle; nor the author of the fourth gospel; nor the writer of the first epistle); about A.D. 180.

JOHN (the gospel; by some one who had been closely connected with the apostle John in his old age, and who borrowed his name and garb for a work much higher in spirit than the views of the real John. It was when the Judaic Christianity of the early apostles was waxing old and ready to die. The great unknown writer of this last gospel seized the spirit of Christ better than any apostle had done. Though his work was a conscious fiction, no fraud was intended. It was a common practice, and proceeded from a good motive, that of helping truth by picturing it in the garb of an apostle or master of truth); about A.D. 150.

SECOND PETER (by a writer who borrowed the apostle's name; not the same as the writer of first Peter) about A.D. 170.

Chris. Register, July 24, 1873Matthew Arnold think, "questions to the exact date, the real authorship the first-publications, & the rank of prionly of the Goodly".

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