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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1898 Excerpt: ... The Mosaic System AND THE Codex A.rgenteus. A page of the Codex Argenteus appears in the Outlook, November 6, 1897, as photographed from the original volume in the Library of the University of Upsala, Sweden. This ancient relic was obtained by Mr. W. S. Harwood of the "Minneapolis Journal" for the Outlook Company. Through the courtesy of these gentlemen, this page is reproduced in this paper and used as a medium for the elucidation of its hidden meaning. In answer to my preferred request for additional information regarding the history of the Codex-page in question, I have been advised by Prof. Aksel Andersson, Roy. Univ. Library, Upsala, that "the Gothic page photographed on page 620 Outlook, Nov. 6, 1897 contains the text of St. Mark iii. 27-32." Dr. Andersson further informs me that only the Codex Argenteus is written with silver-letters on purple-colored parchment; that Bishop Ulphilas invented the letters of the Gothic alphabet (the letters of the Codex Argenteus); that he died as a bishop of the Visigoths in the year 383 in Constantinople; and that the Codex Argenteus was written in northern Italy (with the Ostrogoths) about the year 500. According to these statements the Gothic alphabet is about fifteen hundred years old, but whatever may be the date in which the Codex-page in question was written the Mosaic System of Chronology claims authenticity and inspirational value for it; the Mosaic System leaving the simple historic record--narrative history--for the hidden or parabolic meaning. By the simple historic record the words of the Codex-page as accredited to St. Mark iii. 27-32 are, chiefly, the words of Jesus; while by St. Matt. xiii. 34, 35, "Without a parable spake he not unto them: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, sa...
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