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Tatian Diatessaron, 190 A.D., perhaps earlier, 178.-" God is a spirit." Again, "And this then is the saying, The darkness comprehendeth not the light." And again, "Follow ye the only God; all things have been made by Him, and without Him there was not anything made." These are from Tatian's Apology. Compare with such passages, John iv. 24; i. 5, and i. 3.

These are nearly all the fragmentary passages from the time of the publication of the gospels to the time of Irenæus. The usual answer given to their substantiation of the antiquity of the gospels, viz. "Why may not the quotations have been from other gospels very like the present? " is, of course, inadmissible, such arbitrary moulding of duplex hypotheses being inconsistent with the common principles which regulate our judgment in other matters. The truer objection for those who wish to seek one would to my mind be, "If such evidence were necessary for the verification of a revelation from heaven, it would be a revelation to antiquaries rather than to ordinary men; the responsibility for belief in a revelation being only in proportion to its evidence, and evidence of this kind not falling within the line of the mass of mankind." To which reasonable objection my only reply must be: I think that God has provided other and very different evidences, for which I would refer to the works of other writers in which they have been ably treated, having thrown these considerations into their proper place, which is, as it seems to me to be, in an appendix.

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