Addison, Joseph : (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, dramatist; M.P. 1708-19.
... assures Joseph of Mary being with child by the Holy Spirit and prevents him from divorcing her, while Luke (1:26-33) has the angel announce to Mary that the Holy Spirit will overshadow her and there is no hint of Joseph worrying about any possible scandal. Besides, Matthew (2:1) shows Jesus conceived as well as born in Bethlehem, the birth occurring in Joseph's own house; Luke (2:4-7) makes Joseph and... (b) Was Joseph of Arimathaea Real? In all the four (Gospels we have read of Joseph of Arimathaea who took charge of Jesus' body and removed it to an unused tomb which Mark (15:46), Matthew (27:60) and Luke (23:53) describe as one hewn in rock and John (19:41) simply as one near-by in a garden: 187 in short, in a special separate identifiable location. Brown 188 says about Joseph: "It is... The germ of the Joseph-tale was pre-Marcan but Mark's mentality face-to-face with Jesus' earthly life was pre-Marcan as well as in the matter of prophecy-fulfilment. So the claim to historicity weakens still more. The second detail from Nineham himself to counteract his feeling of the factuality of Joseph of Arimathaea peeps out from his comment apropos of the favour Joseph obtained from the ...
... The Horatian style reached its perfection in France in the satirical writings of Boileau. Alexander Pope in England showed great progress along the line. We should not forget either the names of Joseph Addison and Jonathan Swift. The 18th century was indeed the age of satire. Voltaire was really a superb master in the field. Byron allied satire with sublimity in his work Vision of judgment. ...
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