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De Baptismo, ch. Xvii. ; Baur's Christenthum, 243; Ritschl, Altkath^ lische Kirche, pp. 375, 3?7. * Exhoit. Cast. Ch. Vii. ' Simil. Ix. 27. * Matt, xviii. 20. THE GOSPEL OF MAil^. CM^^^s?^*^ 137 3. The Gospel of Mark, The Gospel of Mark may be singled out as especially the hierarchical one. It eminently displays the neutral and arbi- trary character of the later New Testament literature. Tradition makes it a Petrinic writing, although the author was also a friend and companion of St. Paul ; and... it is said to have ori- ginally consisted of ^' memorials ^^ of Petei'^s preaching at Rome, compiled by Mark either in the Apostle^s lifetime, or, according to other accounts, after his death, ^ at the earnest solicitation of the hearers. According to Papias, it was not a methodical account of Christ^s history and discourses, but a series of de- sultory memoranda of Petrinic "preachings" (ra vtto ntr/oou Kr]pv(T(jof. Ieva), supposed to have been delivered occasionally by the Apostle, in reply to the heretical doctrines of a certain false teacher preceding him.
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