--- title: "1 Biblical-criticism Quotes By George Albert Wells" description: "1 Biblical-criticism quotes by George Albert Wells. Plus more from George Albert Wells and more Biblical-criticism sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7df/george-albert-wells-83116_biblical-criticism_moreover-it-is-not-just-that-the-early-d_1502721.jpg" --- > [“Moreover, it is not just that the early documents are silent about so much of Jesus that came to be recorded in the gospels, but that they view him in a substantially different way -- as a basically supernatural personage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-albert-wells/moreover-it-is-not-just-that-the-early-documents-are-silent-about-so/) George Albert Wells [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7df/george-albert-wells-83116_biblical-criticism_moreover-it-is-not-just-that-the-early-d_1502721.jpg) ## More by George Albert Wells > [People who cannot think in an orderly way are apt to suppose themselves more imaginative than others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-albert-wells/people-who-cannot-think-in-an-orderly-way-are-apt-to-suppose/) George Albert Wells > [“Moreover, it is not just that the early documents are silent about so much of Jesus that came to be recorded in the gospels,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-albert-wells/moreover-it-is-not-just-that-the-early-documents-are-silent-about-so/) George Albert Wells > [...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-albert-wells/people-today-are-so-accustomed-to-pretentious-nonsense-that-they-see/) George Albert Wells ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/biblical-criticism/george-albert-wells/#itemlist", "name": "1 Biblical-criticism Quotes By George Albert Wells", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Moreover, it is not just that the early documents are silent about so much of Jesus that came to be recorded in the gospels, but that they view him in a substantially different way -- as a basically supernatural personage only obscurely on Earth as a man at some unspecified period in the past, 'emptied' then of all his supernatural attributes (Phil.2:7), and certainly not a worker of prodigious miracles which made him famous throughout 'all Syria' (Mt.4:24). 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