Excerpt from The Life of Jesus, Vol. 2 of 2: For the People
So far we have drawn the rough outlines of a real Biography of Jesus, have endeavoured to make him as intelligible to us as is possible in the case of a figure which we view not merely at so remote a distance, but, in the main, through a medium so dim, and one which interrupts the light in a manner so peculiar. We now proceed to decompose the medium itself, i. e. to analyse the images visible in it, by pointing out the conditions under which they have originated.
For performing these processes we may adopt more than one method of arrangement. We might take each of our four Gospels by itself, according to the epoch which it marks in the course of the development of Christian ideas and conceptions, and shew how, at this epoch, such and such efforts being made by the Church, such and such dogmatical principles being assumed, the Life of Jesus did and must necessarily have presented itself to men's apprehension; or, looking to the closer relation of the three first Evangelists and the connection of different tendencies in them, we might combine these together, contrast them with the fourth, and develop first the Synoptic, then the Johannine circle of myths, according to their respective origin, so that we should have to go through the course of the Life of Jesus, in the first case four times, in the second at least twice. The first of these processes would certainly be tedious, the second would be somewhat violent.
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