DISSERTATIONS

UPON

THE PRINCIPLES

AND

ARRANGEMENT

OF

A HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS.

BY

EDWARD GRESWELL, B. D.

FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORD.

OXFORD,

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

MDCCCXXXIV.

Clar. Press

1.6.26.

ADDRESS TO THE READER.

THE supplementary volume which the author of the Dissertations on the Principles and Arrangement of an Harmony of the Gospels, published in 1830, at the University Press, is enabled, by the renewed kindness of the Board of Delegates, to offer to the public, consists of fifteen new Dissertations, besides a variety of miscellaneous notes, and some other fresh matter. The design and purpose of each of these Dissertations respectively, may be summarily explained as follows:

In the first Dissertation, the author has brought together a number of facts and testimonies, from various quarters; the joint tendency of which is to imply, that not only Palestine, but almost every other region of Upper or of Lower Asia, which possessed an aboriginal dialect before the introduction of the Greek language among its inhabitants, continued to retain that dialect even after that event. If this point can be sufficiently well established, it seems to the author of the present work a just inference, that a Gospel, like St. Matthew's, written for native converts belonging to the church of Jerusalem, would be written in the native or vernacular language of Palestine, much more probably than in Greek

In the second Dissertation, the author has en