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William Rathbone Greg quotes

Ocupation: Essayist

Life: 1809 - November 15, 1881

Birthday: 1809

Death: November 15

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Topics: Time, Doubt, Half

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The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position.

source: - William Rathbone Greg (1851). “The creed of Christendom: its foundations and superstructure”, p.98

Topics: Daughter, Son, Men, Luke, Daughter In Law

All the events said to have been witnessed by John alone are omitted by John alone. This fact seems fatal either to the reality of the events in question or to the genuineness of the Fourth Gospel.

source: - William Rathbone Greg (1874). “The Creed of Christendom: Its Foundations Contrasted with Its Superstructure”, p.121

Topics: Reality, Atheism, Facts, Genuineness

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