Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: falsification of history, it is fair to demand that those who make this assertion should bring forward the clearest reasons and most convincing proofs, and not start with a presumption of " general untrustworthi- ness," thus throwing on the book the burden of proof for every single statement which it contains.1 Coming to the proof itself, we set aside, as already stated, the second half of the book, which treats mainly of the history of the Apostle Paul, and confine ourselves to the history of the ante-Pauline time of the early apostolic community. To this end we consult the Pauline writings themselves, because these are unanimously recognised by the disciples of the school of Baur, with the exception of Bruno Bauer, as the undisputed production of the Apostle Paul, especially the Epistles to the Galatians, Corinthians, and Eomans. Let us suppose for a moment that the Acts of the Apostles are absent from the canon, and that we are dependent for our knowledge of the early history of the Christian Church solely on the Epistles of the Apostle Paul, the question then arises, What can we deduce from these ?2 1 We cannot recognise the force of Overbeck's objection to the application of the Gospel-prologue to the Acts (ante, p. xxi. Anm.). For it is established beyond a doubt that the author of both Scriptures is the same. As he expresses his view in the preface to the first work with regard to his method and'aim, it is unreasonable to suppose that he denies these principles in the second work. When Overbeck appeals to Ortel, Paulus in der Apostel- geschichte, 1868, S. 40 f., as a witness on his behalf, he overlooks the fact that Ortel, on the contrary, has put the care, fidelity, and credibility promised by the author, Luke i. 1, in the scale for his second book also; comp. 16...
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