, scope, and plan, 464.

Comparisons, 552.

Context, definition of, 531;
its importance, 531.

Continuous writing, 172, 373.

Contradictions, apparent, reconciliation of, 543.

Coptic version, 407.

Corinth and the Corinthian church, 454.

Corinthians, first epistle to the,
date and place of writing, 453:
occasion and scope, 454;
contents, 455;
contrast with the epistle to the Galatians, 456.

Corinthians, second epistle to the,
date and place of writing, 456;
occasion, contents, and peculiar character, 457.

Cornelius, 441.

Councils, general, their later introduction, 41, 97.

Council of Laodicea, its canon, 399.

Credibility of the gospels. See gospel narratives.

Crete and the Cretan churches, 480.

Criticism of the sacred text,
its office, 209;
of the Old Testament text, its sources, manuscripts, 209;
ancient versions, 210;
primary editions, 210;
parallel passages, 211;
quotations in the New Testament, 211, 632, seq.;
criticism of the New Testament text, its state, 380, seq.;
various readings, 381;
materials for correction, 383;
manuscripts, 384, seq.;
primary editions, 388;
the received text, 389, seq.;
principles of textual criticism, 391, seq.

Cursive manuscripts, 60, 375, 388.

Cyrus, signification of the name, 306
his decree for liberating the Jews, 306

D.

Damasus, his agency with respect to the vulgate, 402.

Daniel, 322.

Daniel, book of,
its place in the Jewish canon, 322;
arrangement and contents, 323;
genuineness, 324, seq.;
unity, 324;
testimonies to it, Josephus, 325;
the Saviour, 325, seq.;
its language, 326, 329;
difficulties connected with its chronology and history, 327;
its supernatural contents, 330.

Daniel, apocryphal additions to, 359.

Danites, their conquest of Laish, 243, 245.

Darius Hystaspes, 261, 345.

Darius the Median, 328.

David, 249, seq.;
typical character of his kingdom and office, 582.

Deluge, 229.

Demetrius Phalerens, his agency in the Septuagint version, 201.

Deuteronomy, book of,
meaning of the name, 238;
its authorship, 124, seq.;
its relation to the earlier parts of the law, 127;
design, 128;
peculiar character, 129;
contents, 238, seq.

Diatesseron of Tatian, 50.

Difficulties,
treatment of, 34, 85;
of the Mosaic economy, 138, 571;
of the book of Genesis, 229, seq.

Diognetus, epistle to, 45.

Disputed books. See Antilego