Manual of Christian evidences - 1888 Author:George Park Fisher Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER m PROOF OF THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS FROM STATEMENTS BY THE APOSTLE PAUL. There are four Epistles which no competent scholar doubts that the Apostl... more »e Paul wrote. The most noted schools of modern skeptics have with one accord accepted them as genuine. They are the two Epistles to the Corinthians, and the Epistles to the Romans and Galatians. In his first Epistle to the Corinthians, Paul refers to the proofs of the resurrection of Jesus. In this important passage we are told what he had learned from the other Apostles on this subject. In the Epistle to the Galatians he speaks of his intercourse with them The acquaint- on different occasions. Three years after with toother his conversion, he had spent a fortnight Apostie,. with Peter at Jerusalem (Gal. i. 18). At that time he had met James, the Lord's brother. Later (a.d. 52), he met Peter, James, and John, and conferred with them on the Gospel (Gal. ii. 1-10). He had enjoyed ample opportunities to ascertain what the Apostles had to say about the resurrection of Jesus; that he would avail himself of theseopportunities we might be certain beforehand ; bnt that he did so, what he tells us on the subject proves. Writing to the Corinthians, he sets down What he had ' icamed from distinctly what he had previously declared to them respecting the Saviour's reappearance from the dead.1 On the third day after his burial, Jesus appeared to Peter. Afterwards he appeared to the twelve ; then to above five hundred brethren assembled together; then to James; then to all the Apostles. Last of all, he had manifested himself alive to Paul himself at the time of his conversion ; for to this event he undoubtedly refers. Even without the records of the Evangelists, it is safe to conclude, from these statements in the Epistle to...« less