and, without any express indication of the omissions they are making, proceeding precisely
as if what they subjoin, followed actually in literal succession.920
920 [The true solution of the difficulty is simple. Our Lord had already left Nazareth and made Capernaum
His headquarters (comp. Luke iv. 30, 31). But Augustin identifies that incident with a subsequent visit to Nazareth
(see ch. xlii.).—R.]
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