The Works of the Rev. P. Doddridge, D.D, Vol. 6: The Family Expositor, Containing the Former Part of the History of Our Lord Jesus Christ, as Recorded ... in the Order of an Harmony (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Works of the Rev. P. Doddridge, D.D, Vol. 6: The Family Expositor, Containing the Former Part of the History of Our Lord Jesus Christ, as Recorded by the Four Evangelists, Disposed in the Order of an Harmony

I thought it might also conduce to the usefulness of this exposition to digest the history of the four evangelists into one continued series. Or, in other words, to throw it into the order of an harmony. By this means each story and discourse is exhibited with all its concurrent circumstances, as recorded by the sacred penmen; frequent repetitions are prevented and a multitude of seem ing oppositions are so evidently reconciled, as to supersede many objections, and render the very mention of them unnecessary. My reader will hardly imagine the pains that this part of the work has cost me, both in examining the orderof the several texts, and collating the different accounts in each, in such a manner, that no one clause in any of the evangelists might be omitted, and yet the seve ral passages to be inserted might make one connected sense, and, without any large addition, stand in a due grammatical order. I was the more sensible of this labour, as Ilaid it down for a maxim to myself, when I entered on this work, that 1 would study as much as possible to make it an original in all its parts Accordingly, the first copy of it was drawn up with hardly any other assistance than that of the Greek Testament, which I endeavoured to harmonize.

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