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stephan huller · 03-03-2012, 06:51 PM

From John Painter, Mark's Gospel: Worlds in Conflict, New Testament Readings, ed. John Court (New York: Routledge. 1997)

[after a some statistical analysis I can't cite because I am eating dinner] The noun is used by Mark and Paul and the deutero- Paulines and rarely elsewhere. These statistics are consistent with the recognition of some connection between Mark and Paul.

http://books.google.com/books?id=O-I...20paul&f=false

Adam · 03-03-2012, 08:08 PM

Maybe, but I suggest that the noun "Gospel" would have been Pauline "orthodoxy" that could have been inserted more easily into Mark (with its diminished textual tradition) than the other gospels.

stephan huller · 03-03-2012, 10:58 PM

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In addition to what has been said, we must know this too about the gospel. First of all, it is the gospel of Christ Jesus, the head of the whole body of the saved, as Mark says: "the beginning of the gospel of Christ Jesus" But further, it is also the gospel of the apostles, on account of which Paul says, "According to my gospel." But the beginning of the gospel (for its greatness consists of a beginning, a sequence, a middle, and the end) is either all the Old Testament, John being its type, or, because of the connection of the New with the Old, the final events of the Old Testament which were presented through John. For the same Mark says, “The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way. The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths straight.” And here I must wonder how the dissentients can connect the two Testaments with two different Gods. These words, were there no others, are enough to convict them of their error [Commentary on John 1.50]

Clearly Origen brings up the Marcionites because they shared this same connection between Paul and Mark.

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stephan huller Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: seattle, wa Posts: 9,337	The Gospel of Paul and Mark Related According to John Painter From John Painter, Mark's Gospel: Worlds in Conflict, New Testament Readings, ed. John Court (New York: Routledge. 1997) [after a some statistical analysis I can't cite because I am eating dinner] The noun is used by Mark and Paul and the deutero- Paulines and rarely elsewhere. These statistics are consistent with the recognition of some connection between Mark and Paul. http://books.google.com/books?id=O-I...20paul&f=false

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03-03-2012, 08:08 PM	#2
Adam Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Dixon CA Posts: 1,150	Maybe, but I suggest that the noun "Gospel" would have been Pauline "orthodoxy" that could have been inserted more easily into Mark (with its diminished textual tradition) than the other gospels.

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