The Commentary | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 21, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 40.

The Commentary.

THE following notes on the lesson are taken bodily from the book, “Christ in the Gospels.” It tells the story of the women at the tomb, and the resurrection of Jesus, in the very words of all the four Gospels. In order fairly to understand the narrative thus woven together, first study carefully the following

EXPLANATION OF THE TEXT.

The figure ¹ in the text indicates that the portion following it has been taken from Matthew’s Gospel. In like manner the figures ² ³ ⁴ indicate the Gospel from which the portions following them are taken, ² indicating Mark, ³ Luke, and ⁴ John. The figure ⁵ indicates that the words following it are not found in any of the four Gospels, but have been either introduced or substituted.

The chapter and verses given at the beginning of each section show what portions of each Gospel are incorporated in that section.

The words in smaller type, in brackets, are those that are not incorporated in the text either 1st, to avoid redundancy, or 2d, because they do not coalesce with the words that are used in the text, or 3d, because they do not occur in the same relative position in the Gospel from which they came as they do in the other Evangelists, much care having been taken throughout the entire work to preserve the exact sequence of each narrative wherever possible.

The figures ¹ ² ³ ⁴ which refer to the different Evangelists (as previously explained), when used within the brackets, only indicate from where the words in the small type are taken, the text proper not being influenced by them.