D. 115.'" | five long pages, but although
| Hilgenfeld does not directly refer
| to the theory of the martyrdom in
| Antioch itself, his reasoning
| forcibly points to that conclusion,
| and forms part of the converging
| trains of reasoning which result in
| that "demonstration" which I
| assert. I will presently make use
| of some of his arguments.
At the close of this analysis Dr. Westcott sums up the result as follows:
"In this case, therefore, again, Volkmar alone offers any arguments
in support of the statement in the text; and the final result of the
references is, that the alleged 'demonstration' is, at the most,
what Scholten calls 'a not groundless conjecture.'" [98:1]
It is scarcely possible to imagine a more complete misrepresentation of
the fact than the assertion that "Volkmar alone offers any arguments in
support of the statement in the text," and it is incomprehensible upon
any ordinary theory. My mere sketch cannot possibly convey an adequate
idea of the elaborate arguments of Volkmar, Baur, and Hilgenfeld, but
I hope to state their main features, a few pages on.
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