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According to a universal belief of the historic Christian Church, Jesus of Nazareth was born without human father, being conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the virgin Mary.
根据历史性基督教会的普遍信仰，拿撒勒人耶稣的诞生没有人间的父亲，乃是由圣灵感孕并从童贞女马利亚所生。
It is the purpose of the following discussion to investigate the origin of this belief.
以下讨论的目的是要考察这一信仰的起源。
Whatever may be thought of the virgin birth itself, the belief of the Church in the virgin birth is a fact of history which no one denies.
无论人们对童贞女生子本身有何看法，教会对童贞女生子的信仰是一个无人否认的历史事实。
How is that fact to be explained?
这个事实如何解释呢？
Two explanations are possible.
两种解释是可能的。
In the first place, it may be held that the Church came to believe in the virgin birth for the simple reason that the virgin birth was a fact; the reason why the creed came to say that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the virgin Mary is that He was actually so conceived and so born.
首先，可以认为教会之所以相信童贞女生子，只是因为童贞女生子是一个事实；信经之所以说耶稣由圣灵感孕并从童贞女马利亚所生，是因为祂确实是如此受孕和诞生的。
In the second place, it may be held that the virgin birth was not a fact, but that the Church came to accept it as a fact through some sort of error.
其次，可以认为童贞女生子不是事实，而是教会通过某种错误而接受它为事实。
This second explanation, obviously, is capable of many subdivisions.
显然，这第二种解释可以有许多细分。
If the idea of the virgin birth is not founded on fact, how did that idea originate?
如果童贞女生子的观念不是建立在事实之上，那么这个观念是如何起源的呢？
Whatever the final answer to this question may be, the question itself must certainly be raised by everyone who denies the historicity of the virgin birth.
无论这个问题的最终答案是什么，这个问题本身必然会被每一个否认童贞女生子历史真实性的人提出。
If the virgin birth of Christ was not a fact, the idea of the virgin birth certainly was; and as a fact it requires some explanation.
如果基督的童贞女生子不是事实，那么童贞女生子的观念确实是事实；而作为一个事实，它需要某种解释。
The former of the two hypotheses—the hypothesis that the belief in the virgin birth was founded upon fact—will be considered in Chapters I–XI; the latter, in Chapters XII–XIV.
两个假设中的前者——即童贞女生子的信仰是建立在事实之上的假设——将在第一至十一章中予以考察；后者将在第十二至十四章中考察。
The consideration of the former hypothesis consists essentially in an examination of the positive testimony to the virgin birth and of the objections that have been raised against it; the consideration of the latter hypothesis consists in an examination of the alternative theories that have been proposed to explain the origin of the idea of the virgin birth on the supposition that it was not founded upon fact.
对前一假设的考察主要在于检验关于童贞女生子的正面见证以及针对它所提出的反对意见；对后一假设的考察在于检验那些在假定童贞女生子不是建立在事实之上的情况下，为解释童贞女生子观念的起源而提出的替代理论。
Please Note: The copious ENDNOTES are not included in the ePub and .mobi versions of this eBook. If you need to look up the endnote, please consult the pdf version.
请注意：大量的尾注未包含在本电子书的ePub和.mobi版本中。如果您需要查阅尾注，请参考pdf版本。
TABLE OF CONTENTS
目录
Preface
序言
Introduction
引言
I. The Virgin Birth in the Second Century
第一章 第二世纪的童贞女生子
II. The Birth Narrative an Original Part of the Third Gospel
第二章 诞生叙事是第三卷福音书的原初部分
III. Characteristics of the Lucan Narrative
第三章 路加叙事的特征
IV. The Hymns of the First Chapter of Luke
第四章 路加福音第一章的颂歌
V. The Origin and Transmission of the Lucan Narrative
第五章 路加叙事的起源和传递
VI. The Integrity of the Lucan Narrative
第六章 路加叙事的完整性
VII. The Narrative in Matthew
第七章 马太福音中的叙事
VIII. The Relation Between the Narratives
第八章 叙事之间的关系
IX. The Inherent Credibility of the Narratives
第九章 叙事的内在可信性
X. The Birth Narratives and Secular History
第十章 诞生叙事与世俗历史
XI. The Birth Narratives and the Rest of the New Testament
第十一章 诞生叙事与新约其余部分
XII. Alternative Theories: Preliminary Considerations
第十二章 替代理论：初步考察
XIII. The Theory of Jewish Derivation
第十三章 犹太起源论
XIV. The Theory of Pagan Derivation
第十四章 异教起源论
XV. Conclusion and Consequences Index
第十五章 结论与后果索引
APPENDIX
附录
APPENDIX II
附录二
The Hymns of the First Chapter of Luke
路加福音第一章的颂歌
The Origin of the First Two Chapters of Luke
路加福音前两章的起源
The Virgin Birth in the Second Century
第二世纪的童贞女生子
Matthew 1:16 and the Virgin Birth
马太福音1章16节与童贞女生子