Note 18 — Chapter III · THE DESTRUCTIVE CHARACTER OF MODERN BIBLE CRITICISM
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Lastly, we are plainly warned that “it is vain to look to the Church fathers for trustworthy information on the subject of the origin of the Gospels.”18 This is an exceedingly grave admission when we remember that these same untrustworthy fathers of the Church did the work of sifting the wheat from the chaff—settling what was and what was not canonical.