others put it thus, “As He came out of Jericho,” is one which no one surely will be prevailed
on to accept, unless those who would have it more readily credited that the gospel is unvera-
cious, than that He wrought two miracles of a similar nature and in similar circumstances.1130
But every faithful son of the gospel will most readily perceive which of these two alternatives
is the more credible, and which the rather to be accepted as true; and, indeed, every gainsayer
too, when he is advised concerning the real state of the case, will answer himself either by
the silence which he will have to observe, or at least by the tenor of his reflections should
he decline to be silent.
1130 [Various other solutions are suggested. Comp. Robinson’s Greek Harmony, rev. ed. pp. 234, 235.—R.]
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