spiritual Sabbath. Or, if something else is intended by the words which thus appear in
Matthew and Mark, Luke’s terms may also be taken to bear on something else, while no
question implying any antagonism between them need be raised for all that. At present,
however, we have not undertaken the task of expounding the Gospels, but only that of de-
fending them against groundless charges of falsehood and deceit. Furthermore, other matters
which Matthew has inserted in this discourse, and which are common to him and Mark,
present no difficulty. On the other hand, with respect to those sections which are common
to him and Luke, [it is to be remarked that] these are not introduced into the present dis-
course by Luke, although in regard to the order of narration here they are at one. But he
records sentences of like tenor in other connections, either reproducing them as they sug-
gested themselves to his memory, and thus bringing them in by anticipation so as to relate
at an earlier point words which, as spoken by the Lord, belong really to a later; or else, giving
us to understand that they were uttered twice over by the Lord, once on the occasion referred
to by Matthew, and on a second occasion, with which Luke himself deals.
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