I now have looked at 197 authors.
As I was doing the latest I was thinking to myself: would it be possible to be influenced by another author and never use a single word? I actually never even finished the thought when I found the following example:
Hanna (1863, pp. 122-123)
. . . Pilate called, therefore, now afresh together the Chief Priests, and the Rulers, and the people--the latter particularly mentioned, as Pilate had now begun to think that his best chance of gaining the end upon which his heart was set,--the deliverance of Christ out of the hands of his enemies,--would be by appealing, over the heads of their rulers, to the humanity of the common people. When all, then, were again assembled, he made a short speech to them, reiterating his own conviction of Christ's innocence, confirming it by the testimony of Herod, and closing by a proposal that he hoped would be at once accepted,--I will therefore chastise him, and release him. . . .
Meyer (1898, p. 232)
. . . He, therefore, summoned around him the chief priests and rulers of the people. The latter are particularly mentioned, as though Pilate thought that his best method of saving Jesus would be by appealing over the heads of the priests to the humanity of the common people. When all were again assembled he made, as Luke tells us, a short speech to them, reiterating his conviction of His innocence, corroborating his own opinion by Herod's, and closing by a proposal which he hoped would meet the whole case. "I will therefore chastise Him and release Him." . . .
As I was doing the latest I was thinking to myself: would it be possible to be influenced by another author and never use a single word? I actually never even finished the thought when I found the following example:
Hanna (1863, pp. 122-123)
. . . Pilate called, therefore, now afresh together the Chief Priests, and the Rulers, and the people--the latter particularly mentioned, as Pilate had now begun to think that his best chance of gaining the end upon which his heart was set,--the deliverance of Christ out of the hands of his enemies,--would be by appealing, over the heads of their rulers, to the humanity of the common people. When all, then, were again assembled, he made a short speech to them, reiterating his own conviction of Christ's innocence, confirming it by the testimony of Herod, and closing by a proposal that he hoped would be at once accepted,--I will therefore chastise him, and release him. . . .
Meyer (1898, p. 232)
. . . He, therefore, summoned around him the chief priests and rulers of the people. The latter are particularly mentioned, as though Pilate thought that his best method of saving Jesus would be by appealing over the heads of the priests to the humanity of the common people. When all were again assembled he made, as Luke tells us, a short speech to them, reiterating his conviction of His innocence, corroborating his own opinion by Herod's, and closing by a proposal which he hoped would meet the whole case. "I will therefore chastise Him and release Him." . . .
