Of external evidence there is almost none, and what little exists does not warrant an early date.
Tertullian, which is a couple of centuries older than any of the other authorities, as well as by the Peschito, not to mention other codices, the balance of external evidence is distinctly in its favour.
Received text, with no real variation in any known manuscript: all such examples must stand or fall on their own proper grounds of external evidence, the internal, so far as it ought to go, being clearly in their favour.
Now it may be said without extravagance that no set of Scriptural records affords a text less probable in itself or less sustained by any rational principles of external evidence, than that of Cod.
External evidence, however, places the spuriousness of the addition beyond doubt.
But the point to which we especially invite his attention is, the sufficiency of the external evidence which Divine Wisdom is observed to have invariably provided for the establishment of the truth of His written Word.
But then we make it our fundamental rule to reason always from grounds of external Evidence,--never from postulates of the Imagination.
In reply to all this, I shall of course be told that really I must yield to what is after all the weight of external evidence: that Codd.
There is no external evidence to prove that any piece in which Shakespeare had a hand was produced before the spring of 1592.
External evidence is accessible in only a few cases, and, although always worthy of the utmost consideration, is not invariably conclusive.
There is no external evidence in favour of Shakespeare's authorship in either case.
External evidence is against this, nor does it seem demanded by the context; in fact xv.
There is also a certain amount of external evidence to be gathered from--(1) Monuments and records of other contemporary civilizations, e.
External evidence, which is relatively early and widespread (e.
But as even the internal evidences of scripture would be insufficient to support their authority without the concurrence of external evidence, so would the external be found wanting without the internal.
And this is as much as we want of external evidence, of the sort refered to.
It is full of Pauline thought, and is well attested by external evidence.
An Epistle which has the triple support of Clement, Polycarp, and Papias is, so far as external evidence is concerned, beyond the reach of any sober criticism.
The Pauline authorship of this Epistle is well attested by external evidence.
External evidence, as can be seen, is not something mysterious and peculiar, but simply an application of common sense to the problem in hand.
By external evidence we mean that found outside of the play, references to it in other books of the time, and similar material.
The above list does not exhaust all the forms of external evidence, but merely shows its general nature.
In respect to the difference of speech between particular islands, there is external evidence that it is considerable.
In a criticism of this kind, but little confidence can be placed in external evidence, because it all comes within the realm of art or accident, and any scientific truth can not be founded thereon.
It belongs to the most worthless kind of external evidence.
It is external evidence, and may be a lie, for lying is common to mankind.
There is no external evidence, direct in its nature, as to the authorship of Junius; the evidence is internal.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "external evidence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
