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“My desire,” says F. W. Farrar in the preface, is “to point out the general form, the peculiar characteristics, the special message of the Sacred Books one by one, because I had found by experience, both as a teacher and as a clergyman, that this method of studying each part of Scripture as a complete whole was much less common than could be desired.” In The Messages of the Books, Farrar sets out...

record for us the historic facts which are the objective bases of our Christian creed, but they are our almost exclusive authority on this subject. They tell us all that we are really permitted to know in detail about the earthly life of the Saviour in whom we believe.1 The word Gospel is the Saxon translation of the Greek word euangelion.2 In early Greek the word meant the reward given to one who brought good tidings.3 In Attic Greek it meant (in the plural) a sacrifice for good tidings.4 Hence
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