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Book Description
- Title:
- Canon Muratorianus: the Earliest Catalogue of the Books of the New Testament. Edited with Notes And a Facsimile of the MS. in the Ambrosian Library at Milan
- Author:
- Samuel Prideaux Tregelles [1813-1875]
- Publication Year:
- 1867
- Location:
- Oxford
- Publisher:
- Clarendon Press
- Pages:
- viii + 112
- Subjects:
- Early Church, New Testament Canon, Muratorian Fragment
- Copyright Holder:
- Public domain
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part I.
- The publication of the Catalogue by Muratori; Wieseler's description of the document; note; History of the MS., and part of the contents; Original language Greek
- Criticisms of others on the Muratorian Canon: Mosheim, Stosch, Simon de Magistris, Bunsen
- Re-collations and Re-examinations: Nott, Wieseler, Hertz; Later Criticisms: Routh, Bunsen, Credner, Van Gilse, Westcott, Hilgenfeld, Volkmar
- Tregelles's facsimile; Thiersch'e peculiar doubts, note; Ceriani's aid
APPENDIX TO PART l
A. Muratori's description of the Ambrosian MS. and its contents
B. Works on the Muratorian Canon
- Part II.
- The Muratorian Canon line for line
- The following passage in the MS. from St. Ambrose, as given twice, with collations
- Mr. Westcott's remarks on the writing of the MS.
- Part III.
- On the contents of the Fragment
- St. Mark's Gospel
- St. Luke's Gospel
- St. John's Gospel; Its history and origin: Clement, Jerome; Victorinus Petavionensis
- Mutual relation of the Gospels
- St. John's first Epistle; John as an eye-witness. Greek order of the Gospels
- Acts of the Apostles. Jerome quoted; Eusebius. Roman character of the Fragment; St. Peter's martyrdom. Tertullian, Caius, Dionysius
- St. Paul's Epistles, Corinthiane, Galatians, Romans Old Testament citations mostly in the Romans
- St. Paul's Epistles to seven Churches; The Apocalypse of St. John; Victorinus Petavionensis (A. D. 300), Cyprian; Catholic Church; Bede
- St. Paul's Epistles to individuals
- Epistles falsely ascribed to St. Paul To the Laodiceans; to the Alexandrians
- Epistles of Jude and John
- The Book of Wisdom; Supposed omission in the Fragment; Wisdom and Proverbs; Is Wisdom the work of Philo? Jerome quoted; Hippolytus quoted, note; lrenaeus and Eusebius on the book of Wisdom; Opinion of Bishop Fitzgerald, note; Early traces of the book. Clement of Rome
- Apocalypees of John and Peter; Early citations from the so-called Apocalypse of Peter. Eusebius, Clement of Alexandria; Methodius. Hippolytue, note
- Hermas and the Shepherd; Date of the Muratorian Fragment; Hermas used by Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria; Supposition of Origen as to the authorship; Rejected by Tertullian: Eusebius and Jerome; Testimonies as to its date; Commendations on the work as a fiction; Discovery of the Greek Text; Recent discoveries. Hypereides, Philosophumena of Hippolytus, &c.; The MS. of Hippolytus. Dr. Routh on the authorship, note
- Certain writings of Heretics; Conclusion of the Fragment
- Part IV. The Relation of the 14uratorian Canon to other Authorities of the Second Century.
- This Canon a centre-point for other testimonies
- The Gospels; Used everywhere at the close of the second century; Irenaeus quoted; Justin Martyr on the use of the Gospels; What Gospels did Justin use?; St. John's Gospel; Papias on Mark and Matthew; Irenaeus on the authorship of the Gospels; Mark identified with "John whose surname was Mark"; Metaphors changed into facts; Eusebius on the early use of the Gospels; Heretical testimonies to the Gospels; Heathen testimony: Celsus
- St. John's first Epistle; Irenaeus, &c. Polycarp, Papias, &c.
- Book of Acts;Polycarp. Clement of Rome
- St. Paul's Epistles; Tertnllian; Justin Martyr; Clement of Rome on I Cor. Dionysius of Corinth; Clement's use of Romans. Polycarp; Bentley's Correspondence, note
- Epistles of Jude and John; Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria on Jude; Irenaeus on 2, John : Clement of Alexandria; 3 John in the Clementine Homilies
- The Apocalypse. Papias, Justin Martyr; Melito. Dionysius of Corinth; Irenaeus on the date and authorship;Clement of Alexandria. Tertullian;Testimony from four Apocalyptic Churches, note
- Part V. The Books not mentioned in the Muratorian Canon.
- Hebrews; Authorship the only real question;Used by Clement of Rome; Jerome on Clement and Hebrews, note; Justin Martyr. lrenaeus; Clement of Alexandria asserts Paul to be the author; Tertullian ascribes it to Barnabas; Hippolytus's use of Hebrews; Origen on the authorship: how far Pauline; Its place in the order of books; Later traces of a belief that Barnabas was the writer
- First Epistle of St. Peter; Papias, Polycarp, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria; Tertullian in his Scorpiace
- Second Epistle of St. Peter; Firmilianus; Origen, Eusebius; Hippolytus, Theophilus of Antioch; Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Pseudo-Barnabas; Polycarp, Clement of Rome, Melito; Sibylline Books, note; Silence of Tertullian; Pamphilus (in Euthalius); Grounds of objection, internal; Internal proofs of genuineness; Clementine Homilies, note; Style; Later portion of Isaiah sanctioned as his in the New Testament, note; Moral arguments for 2 Pet.; Was the Apocalypse of Peter a false substitute for his second Epistle?
- The Epistle of James; Origen, Irenaeus; Hermas, Dionysius of Alexandria
- The New Testament in the fourth century; Diocletian persecution; Traditors; Assertions used against the New Testament; Objections to St. John's Gospel, note; Importance of Historic Evidence
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