A HARMONY OF THE FOUR GOSPELS IN GREEK. ACCORDING TO THE TEXT OF HAHN. NEWLY ARRANGED, WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES, BY EDWARD ROBINSON, D. D. LL. D. Professor of Biblical Literature in the Union Theological Seminary, New-York; BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY CROCKER AND BREWSTER. LONDON: WILEY AND PUTNAM. 1845. NEW-YORK: JOHN F. TROW AND CO. PRINTERS, 33 ANN STREET. 25268 852560 A2R6 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845, by Edward ROBINSON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York. PREFACE. THE experience of many years has not failed to impress upon the minds of most Biblical teachers, the advisableness of permitting the Harmony of the Gospel History to occupy a prominent place among the earliest studies of a Theological Seminary. The simplicity of the language, the interest and importance of the events, and also the very difficulties, real or alleged, with which the subject is environed, all mark this portion of the Word of God as particularly adapted for introducing the youthful student into the principles and practice of Biblical Interpretation. If the study of the Harmony be rightly carried out, there is thus laid a broad and solid ground-work, on which afterwards to erect a substantial and enduring structure of Biblical Science, "built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone." In furtherance of these general views, no less than two editions of Archbishop Newcome's Harmony have formerly appeared in this country; one of them under my own superintendence. These have already been long out of print, so that for some years it has been very difficult to obtain copies. Under these circumstances, and by the advice and request of leading Professors in several of our Theological Seminaries, as well as from a feeling of necessity in the case of my own pupils, I was led to turn my attention to the supply of this acknowledged want. It soon, however, became apparent, that, rather than to engraft the changes and additions, which seemed necessary, upon any former work, it would be easier, and perhaps better, to prepare a new one. The present volume, accordingly, was undertaken with these impressions; and it is now given to the public, as a new and independent work, in |