The name ' Diatessaron ' is Greek for ' through four '; the Syriac name for this gospel harmony is '' ( Ewangeliyôn Damhalltê ) meaning ' Gospel of the Mixed ' while in the other hand we have '' ( Evangelion de Mepharreshe ) meaning ' Gospel of the separated '.

The gospel is closely related in style and content to the three surviving Epistles of John such that commentators treat the four books together, yet, according to most modern scholars, John was not the author of any of these books.

In Islam the Injil () is the Arabic name for the original gospel of Jesus, and is one of the four Islamic holy books that the Qur ' an records as having been revealed by God.

A four gospel canon ( the Tetramorph ) was in place by the time of Irenaeus, c. 160, who refers to it directly.

Thus Irenaeus provides the earliest witness to the assertion of the four canonical Gospels, possibly in reaction to Marcion's edited version of the Gospel of Luke, which Marcion asserted was the one and only true gospel.

Against Heresies 3. 11. 7 acknowledges that many heterodox Christians use only one gospel while 3. 11. 9 acknowledges that some use more than four.

A four gospel canon ( the Tetramorph ) was asserted by Irenaeus, who refers to it directly in his polemic Against the Heresies, " It is not possible that the gospels can be either more or fewer in number than they are.

For, since there are four zones of the world in which we live, and four principal winds, while the church is scattered throughout all the world, and the “ pillar and ground ” of the church is the gospel and the spirit of life ; it is fitting that she should have four pillars, breathing out immortality on every side, and vivifying men afresh.

Pentecostals cite four major reasons for believing in divine healing: 1 ) it is reported in the Bible, 2 ) Jesus ' healing ministry is included in his atonement ( thus divine healing is part of salvation ), 3 ) " the whole gospel is for the whole person "— spirit, soul, and body, 4 ) sickness is a consequence of the Fall of Man and salvation is ultimately the restoration of the fallen world.

Therefore, Matthew is the first gospel to appear in the chronological order of the four gospels in the Second, or New Testament.

Cotton Plant was the birthplace of Sister Rosetta Tharpe ( b. 1915 ), who began to perform as a gospel singer in churches in the area from the age of four.

In all four gospel accounts, Pilate avoids responsibility for the death of Jesus.

" In fact, he was so concerned for Bath, he visited the town on four occasions between 1747 and 1762 to preach the gospel.

Irenaeus of Lyons wrote in the late 2nd century that since there are four quarters of the earth ... it is fitting that the church should have four pillars ... the four Gospels ( Against Heresies, 3. 11. 8 ), and then shortly thereafter made the first known quotation from a fourth gospel — the canonical version of the Gospel of John.

James started adding gospel elements in her music the following year releasing " Something's Got a Hold on Me ", which peaked at number four on the R & B chart and was also a top 40 pop hit.

The original quartet version of the brothers was inspired by their father O ' Kelly Isley, Sr., a singer in a local gospel group, who had envisioned his sons being " the next Mills Brothers " having his four eldest sons, Kelly, Rudy, Ronnie and Vernon, sing together in church at early ages.

Bailey released four gospel albums in this period, and one of them, titled Triumph, won him a Grammy Award for Best Gospel Vocal Performance, Male.

** During the eve of Friday and Friday, four gospel passages are read, and more prophecies are read as well.

According to all four gospels, the empty tomb led to the revelation of Jesus ' resurrection, implicitly in the canonical Gospel of Mark ( without the later endings ) and explicitly in the other three canonical gospel narratives.

In the first four years of teaming with Dove Award-winning producer Michael Sykes, they made a full length gospel album ( From The Heart ), another Christmas album ( Inconvenient Christmas ), a patriotic album ( Colors ), a bluegrass album ( The Journey ), and recorded gospel songs to be added to a special edition version of From The Heart that was available only from Feed The Children.

The church has an open canon which includes four scriptural texts: the Bible ( both Old and New Testaments ), the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price.

The standard works of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) are the four books that currently constitute its open scriptural canon, due to the LDS belief in continuous revelation.

Marcion rejected three of the four Canonical gospels, constructing a canon consisting of only of a redacted Gospel of Luke which he called the Gospel of the Lord, and ten of the Pauline epistles.

Likewise, the Muratorian fragment is evidence that, perhaps as early as 200, there existed a set of Christian writings somewhat similar to the twenty-seven book NT canon, which included four gospels and argued against objections to them.

To this day, German-language Luther Bibles are printed with these four books at the end of the canon, rather than in their traditional order as in other editions of the Bible.

The Holy See's Annuario Pontificio, in its list of popes and antipopes, attaches a footnote to its mention of Stephen II ( III ): " On the death of Zachary the Roman priest Stephen was elected ; but, since four days later he died, before his consecratio, which according to the canon law of the time was the true commencement of his pontificate, his name is not registered in the Liber Pontificalis nor in other lists of the Popes.

The Annuario Pontificio attaches to its mention of Stephen II ( III ) the footnote: " On the death of Zachary the Roman priest Stephen was elected ; but, since four days later he died, before his consecratio, which according to the canon law of the time was the true commencement of his pontificate, his name is not registered in the Liber Pontificalis nor in other lists of the Popes.

Of the nineteen Gorcum martyrs, eleven were Franciscan priests ; Peter Ascanius and Cornelius Vican, laymen ; one Dominican, two Premonstratensian monks, a regular canon of Saint Augustine, and four secular parish priests.

Current canon law prescribes that to be ordained a priest, an education is required of two years of philosophy and four of theology, including study of dogmatic and moral theology, the Holy Scriptures, and canon law have to be studied within a seminary or an ecclesiastical faculty at a university.

There are sixteen pages of arcaded canon tables, where parallel passages of the four Evangelists are laid out ( Backhouse 1981, 41 ; Backhouse 2004 ).

Kaller chose four ethnic Poles as canon candidates to replenish the chapter to the end that ethnic Poles and Germans would each have half the seats.

In 1347 he took the important step of ensuring the legitimation of his four sons, John, Earl of Carrick ( the future King Robert III ), Walter, Lord of Fife ( d. 1362 ), Robert ( the future Duke of Albany ) and Alexander, Lord of Badenoch ( and future Earl of Buchan ), and six daughters by petitioning Pope Clement VI to allow a canon law marriage to Elizabeth Mure.

Every fellow was to study theology, save for two who were to study astronomy, two civil law, four canon law, and two medicine ; all fellows save those studying secular subjects were obliged to take Holy Orders and become priests, on pain of expulsion.

The Jews of Castile, the largest population in Europe, were exempted by the pope four years later, but elsewhere, local laws were introduced to bring the canon into effect.

The first result of his studies was an edition from a Bodleian Library manuscript of the four New Testament epistles ( 2 Peter, 2 and 3 John, Jude ) which were not in the old Syriac canon, and were not contained in European editions of the Peshito.

# Gemächlich ( Leisurely ) – in ternary form ( ABA ), the outer parts being a four part canon with all the notes the same length ( fluctuations in tempo aside ).

While some writers consider each of the 28 statements of the ground bass a separate variation, one scholar finds that Pachelbel's canon is constructed of just 12 variations, each four bars long, and describes them as follows:

Das and Claes Schaar, mainstream scholarship tends to imit Cynewulf ’ s canon to the four poems which bear his acrostic mark:

This corpus of manuscripts was discovered in 1931 in Gilgit, containing many Buddhist texts such as four sutras from the Buddhist canon, including the famous Lotus Sutra.

In the Pali canon, the Buddha recommends cultivating these four virtuous mental states to both householders and monastics.

Mahler's Fourth starts with 24 F-sharps tapped in consort with sleighbells ; the vaulting canon theme which comprises the first four bars of Shostakovich's Fifth descends to a motto rhythm of three repeated As on the violins.