Introduction
The Gospel. See note commencing Matthew 1:1. The Gospel here signifies the unwritten oral Christ-history possessed by the Church which constitutes the subject-matter of the four written gospels.
According to As shaped and recorded by. The ancient titles do not say The Gospel by Matthew or Luke; for that would obscure the fact that the body of gospel facts was accumulated before the gospel books were written.
PERIOD FIRST.
INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD OF JESUS.
The two former Gospels, says Van Oosterzee, show us who Jesus was; this informs us how he became what he was; pointing us successively to the unborn, (Luke 2:22,) the infant, (Luke 2:16,) the child, (Luke 2:27,) the boy, (Luke 2:40,) and the man, (Luke 3:22.)
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