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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: THE GOSPEL IN BRIEF chapter{Section 4AUTHOR'S PREFACE I HIS present book is extracted from a larger work, JL which exists in manuscript, and cannot be published in Russia. That work consists of four parts, namely:? 1. An account of that course of my personal life, and of my thoughts, which led me to the conviction that in the Christian teaching lies the truth. 2. An investigation of the Christian teaching? first, according to the interpretation of the Greek Church solely; then, according to the interpretation of the Churches generally, and the interpretation of the apostles, councils, and so-called Fathers. Also, an exposition of the falsity in these interpretations. 3. An investigation of the Christian teaching, based, not upon the above interpretations, but solely upon the words and deeds ascribed to Christ by the four Gospels. 4. An exposition of the real meaning of the Christian teaching, of the motives for its perversions, and of the consequences to which it should lead. From the third of these parts this present volume is condensed. I have there effected the fusion of the four Gospels into one, according to the real sense of the teaching. I had no need to digress from the order in which each Gospel is written, so that in my harmonisation the transpositions of verses, rather than being more, are less numerous than in the greater part of those known to me, and in our Grechoulevitch's version of the four Gospels. In my treatment of the Gospel of John there is no transposition, but all stands in the same order as in the original. My division of the Gospel into twelve chapters (or six, since each pair of the twelve may be taken as one)came about spontaneously from the nature of the teaching. The following is the purport of the chapters:? 1. M...