mount.1019 So that we take these words to have been spoken twice over, to wit, on that
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previous occasion, and again on this one. But on the conclusion of this discourse Luke
proceeds to another subject, as to which it is uncertain whether, in the account which he
gives of it, he has kept by the order of actual occurrence. For he connects it in this way: “And
as He spake, a certain Pharisee besought Him to dine with him.”1020 He does not say,
however, “as He spake these words,” but only “as He spake.” For if he had said, “as He spake
these words,” the expression would of course have compelled us to suppose that the incidents
referred to, besides being recorded by him in this order, also took place on the Lord’s part
in that same order.
1019 Matt. v.-vii.
1020 Luke xi. 37.
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