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THE GOSPEL OF ST. LUKE IN ITS RELATION TO ST. PAUL.

“Et Lucas autem sectator Pauli quod ab illo prædicabatur Evangelium in libro condidit."

IREN ÆUSCont. Hores lib. iii., cap. 1. TIe Gospel of Luke belongs to that humanity underlies the divinity; but portion of the evangelical history the two are in perfect harmony. categorized by Clement of Alexandria Though Jesus is represented as the as the somatic gospels-writinys more Incarnate Logos, who has existed with especially devoted to the delineation the Father from eternity, by whom of the humanity of Christ. These all things were made, yet the same words were written more particularly gospel contains some of the most in relation to the Gospel of John tender traits of the humanity of which, in opposition, was styled Christ; he weeps the tears of human

a pneumatic, or_spiritual gospel," sympathy at the tomb of Lazarusthey run thus:-“But John, the last not for the death of Lazarus, as he of the evangelists, seeing that the knew he should raise him, but from carnal (ra owpatika) had been set sympathy with the sorrowing sisters.f forth in the other gospels, and being It pertained equally to our salvaurged by his friends, and inspired by tion that Christ should take upon the Holy Ghost, wrote a spiritual himself our humanity, and thus be(a vevpatikov) gospel."*

come our elder brother, as that he fectly true, but it contains no contra- should be in such perfect unity with diction to the fact that the divinity the Father as to be very God himself. of our Lord is clearly manifested in The mystery of the Incarnation and each of the gospel the only differ- the secret of its salvatorial influence ence being one of manner. In the three is that it restored man to his lost first gospels the divinity of Christ is position in creation, that it opened manifested through his humanity up a way of returning to God, that underlying it, as it were, and forcing the God-man Christ Jesus was the from the witnesses of his deeds un- new Adam-that, as by the first, sin willing confessions of its reality; they and death came into the word, i.e. began by astonishment and envy, estrangement from God, which is they would have stoned him and death ; so by the second came life slain him, but they ended in the con- and reconciliation. fession that “Surely a great prophet This gospel, therefore, is rich in is risen up amongst us, and God has matter concerning the life of Christ, visited his people.” (Luke iv. 28, vi. and contains many things not to be 11, and vii. 16.)

found in the other gospels. But with the Gospel of John the We are indebted to Luke for the

This is per

" Commentar zum Johannis Evan

* Cited in Euseb. Hist. Ecc., lib. vi., 14.

See Tholuck on the passage, John si, 25-27. | gelium :" Gotha, 1857.

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