Identifier: biblespadelectur00pete (find matches)
Title: Bible and spade; lectures delivered before Lake Forest college
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921
Subjects: Bible
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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me of the actual sayingsof our Lord; but comparison of what has been foundwith what has been handed down in the canonicalGospels will, I think, satisfy the ordinary reader thathowever interesting papyri sayings and Gospels may beto the curious inquirer, our Gospels have skimmed thecream, and we may be well content that the Churchselected for Bible use those four and only those four.The discoveries in Palestine which I recorded in mylast lecture, and the discoveries in Egypt of which Ihave been speaking to-day, have introduced a newrealism into the Gospel story which I felt most keenlyon my last visit to the Holy Land. At Capernaum Icould picture to myself, from what had been unearthed,the beautiful synagogue of stone brought from a dis-tance, shining white, unlike the black stone of thecountry, which had been built by the centurion, andof which the people of Capernaum were so proud. Iknow now where Capernaum really was, where Beth-saida was, where Gennesaret was. I see the scenes as I
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