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ANALYSIS AND SUMMARY

OF

NEW TESTAMENT HISTORY.

In Folio, price 78. 6d.

AN ATLAS,

ILLUSTRATIVE OF THIS WORK.

CONTAINING

LARGE COLOURED MAPS, AND AN ANALYSIS AND SUMMARY OF THE HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH A LARGE VIEW OF JERUSALEM AND PLAN OF THE ANCIENT CITY.

AN ANALYSIS AND SUMMARY OF

NEW TESTAMENT HISTORY

INCLUDING

THE FOUR GOSPELS HARMONIZED INTO ONE CONTINUOUS NARRATIVE;
THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES AND CONTINUOUS HISTORY OF ST. PAUL;
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EPISTLES AND BOOK OF REVELATION;
THE CRITICAL HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, ETC.;

WITH COPIOUS NOTES, HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL,
· AND ANTIQUARIAN

James Talboys

BY J. T. WHEELER, F. R. G. S.

PROFESSOR OF MORAL AND MENTAL PHILOSOPHY AND LOGIC IN
THE PRESIDENCY COLLEGE, MADRAS;

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AUTHOR OF AN ANALYSIS AND SUMMARY OF HERODOTUS," AND "AN
ANALYSIS AND SUMMARY OF THUCYDIDES," ETC.

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STRAHAN & CO., PUBLISHERS

56, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON

1871

1st ed. 185 3.

PREFACE.

THE present work differs in so many respects from the former volumes of the same Series, that a detailed account of its contents will be necessary for a proper understanding of its scope and object.

In the first place, although the title of an "Analysis and Summary" has been continued, for the sake of preserving its uniformity with the Series, yet the present volume may be regarded more as an "Analysis and Paraphrase;" for instead of an abridged summary of facts, the narrative has been frequently expanded for the more full development of the meaning; and all the discourses and parables of our Lord, which, even in our translation, are often regarded with the same holy veneration as if they had been written in the vernacular tongue of the period, are here given entire in the very words of our authorized English version, but in a smaller type, and divided into paragraphs like the other portions of the work.

From the title thus modified, the reader may conclude that the object of the accompanying work is as follows. First, To reproduce the Gospels and Acts in a typographical form and style the most capable of fixing them in the memory of the

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