ABSTRACT
In the lecture on Immortality in Synoptic Teaching you were reminded that these writings have a twofold significance. For the Synoptic writings are fundamentally Semitic, Palestinian, and Petrine, however adapted in their present Greek form to the use of Pauline churches, whereas the Ephesian Gospel comes to us as an almost pure product of Pauline Christianity of the second generation in Greek-speaking Christendom. The outward elements of Pauline teaching had in some measure penetrated Petrine story even in the Gospel of Mark. In the fourth Gospel this is the very essence of the mission of the Redeemer. God gave Him authority over all flesh that to all whom God gave him he should give eternal life. In the Fourth Gospel the Greek conception of an immortality conditioned upon participation in the nature of the immortals has completely triumphed over the Jewish of miraculous resuscitation to share in the joys of a millennial reign.
