spruchsammlung

Updated: May 10, 2025

This is one of a class of passages which form the cruces of Synoptic criticism. It is almost equally difficult to think and not to think that both the canonical parallels are drawn from the same original. The great majority of German critics maintain that they are, and most of these would seek that original in the 'Spruchsammlung' or 'Collection of Discourses' by the Apostle St. Matthew.

William Sanday - The Gospels in the Second Century: An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion'

No careful reader can avoid noticing the many coincidences of expression between the three synoptics, and deducing from these coincidences the conclusion that one narrative formed the basis of the three histories. Ewald supposes the existence of a Spruchsammlung collected sayings of Christ but such a collection is not enough to explain the phenomena we refer to. Dr.

Annie Besant - The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II.: Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History