office of teacher this is what He has said to the rich: “Woe unto you that are rich, for ye have received your consolation;”902 and “Woe unto you that are full, for ye shall hunger; and ye who laugh now, for ye shall weep;” and, “Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you: for so did your fathers to the false prophets.” All things of the following kind we have known through Luke alone (and numerous actions of the Lord we have learned through him, which also all [the Evangelists] notice): the multitude of fishes which Peter’s companions enclosed, when at the Lord’s command they cast the nets;903 the woman who had suffered for eighteen years, and was healed on the Sabbath-day;904 the man who had the dropsy, whom the Lord made whole on the Sabbath, and how He did defend Himself for having performed an act of healing on that day; how He taught His disciples not to aspire to the uppermost rooms; how we should invite the poor and feeble, who cannot recompense us; the man who knocked during the night to obtain loaves, and did obtain them, because of the urgency of his importunity;905 how, when [our Lord] was sitting at meat with a Pharisee, a woman that was a sinner kissed His feet, and anointed them with ointment, with what the Lord said to Simon on her behalf concerning the two debtors;906 also about the parable of that rich man who stored up the goods which had accrued to him, to whom it was also said, “In this night they shall demand thy soul from thee; whose then shall those things be which thou hast prepared?”907 and similar to this, that of the rich man, who was clothed in purple and who fared sumptuously, and the indigent Lazarus;908 also the answer which He gave to His disciples when they said, “Increase our faith;”909 also His conversation with Zaccheus 439 the publican;910 also about the Pharisee and the publican, who were praying in the temple at the same time;911 also the ten lepers, whom He cleansed in the way simultaneously;912 also how He ordered the lame and the blind to be gathered to the wedding from the lanes and streets;913 also the parable of the judge who feared not God, whom the widow’s impor- tunity led to avenge her cause;914 and about the fig-tree in the vineyard which produced no 902 Luke vi. 24, etc. 903 Luke v. 904 Luke xiii. 905 Luke xi. 906 Luke vii. 907 Luke xii. 20. 908 Luke xvi. 909 Luke xvii. 5. 910 Luke xix. 911 Luke xviii. 912 Luke xvii. 913 Luke xviii. 914 Luke xiii. 1109 Chapter XIV.—If Paul had known any mysteries unrevealed to the other apostles,…