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This harmony is intended to promote and facilitate the historical
study of the gospels. The Life of Christ is now engaging the
attention of Biblical scholars to a remarkable degree. But it is to
be remembered that the principal textbook is the fourfold gospel.
The study of the Life of Christ is primarily the historical study
of the four gospels, which implies the tracing of the events they
narrate in their chronological sequence and in their organic
connection. For this purpose a constant comparison of the four
narratives is necessary, and a synopsis or harmony becomes in the
very nature of the case indispensable. The proper object of a
harmony of the gospels is not to harmonize them, if by that is
meant bringing them into agreement. It is simply an arrangement by
which the corresponding parts of different documents may be brought
together before the eye and compared-a method not peculiar to
Biblical study, but familiar to all students of literary and
historical documents. Accordingly we have made no attempt to
harmonize what is not harmonious, but simply to exhibit the facts.
Whatever discrepancies the four narratives contain, we have
preferred to let the printed page display them equally with the
agreements, rather than adopt an arrangement or a dissection which
should withdraw them from view. Wherein the four writers differ,
and how they differ, is precisely what the intelligent reader
wishes to know; eventually he comes to value their writings even
more for their differences than for their verbally exact
agreements. -from the Preface
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