Note 6 — Chapter VII · THE ALLEGED CONSENSUS OF SCHOLARS

Professor Harnack, in his most recent publication, even while stating that now the tide has turned, and that theology, after having strayed in the darkness and led others into darkness (see Matt. xv, 14) for about fifty years, has now got a better insight into things, and has come to a truer appreciation of the real trustworthiness of tradition, still puts Mark’s gospel between 65 and 70 A.D., Matthew’s between 70 and 75, but Luke’s much later, about 78–93.6