throne of His father David, in order that of His kingdom there should be none end.514 And this was done with the purpose that there might be a mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,515 to make intercession for us. Luke, on the other hand, had no one con- nected with him to act as his summarist in the way that Mark was attached to Matthew. And it may be that this is not without a certain solemn significance.516 For it is the right of kings not to miss the obedient following of attendants; and hence the evangelist, who had taken it in hand to give an account of the kingly character of Christ, had a person attached to him as his associate who was in some fashion to follow in his steps. But inasmuch as it was the priest’s want to enter all alone into the holy of holies, in accordance with that prin- ciple, Luke, whose object contemplated the priestly office of Christ, did not have any one to come after him as a confederate, who was meant in some way to serve as an epitomizer of his narrative.517 514 Luke i. 32. 515 1 Tim. ii. 5. 516 Sine aliquo sacramento. 517 [Here we have a mystical meaning attached to an opinion unwarranted by facts. Yet Augustin’s mystical treatment of the “Synoptic problem” is, with all its faults, not more fanciful and extravagant than some of the modern “critical” solutions of the same problem.—R.] 168 Of the Fact that Matthew, Together with Mark, Had Specially in View the…