{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/106/1060130.htm","path":"chr/ecf/106/1060130.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/106/1060130.htm","text":"Chapter XXXIII.\u2014Of the Occasion on Which He Calls Them to Take His Yoke and Burden Upon Them, and of the Question as to the Absence of Any Discrepancy Between Matthew and Luke in the Order of Narration.\n80. Matthew proceeds thus: \u201cAt that time Jesus answered and said, I make my acknowledgment to Thee, 996 O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent,\u201d and so on, down to where we read, \u201cFor my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.\u201d 997 This passage is also noticed by Luke, but only in part. For he does not give us the words, \u201cCome unto me, all ye that labour,\u201d and the rest. It is, however, quite legitimate to suppose that all this may have been said on one occasion by the Lord, and yet that Luke has not recorded the whole of what was said on that occasion. For Matthew\u2019s phrase is, that \u201cat that time Jesus answered and said;\u201d by which is meant the time after His upbraiding of the cities. Luke, on the other hand, interposes some matters, although they are not many, after that upbraiding of the cities; and then he subjoins this sentence: \u201cIn that hour He rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, 998 and said.\u201d 999 Thus, too, we see that even if Matthew\u2019s expression had been, not \u201cat that time,\u201d but \u201cin that very hour,\u201d still what Luke inserts in the interval is so little that it would not appear an unreasonable thing to give it as all spoken in the same hour.\nConfiteor tibi. [Comp. Revised Version.\u2014R.]\n140:997 140:998 140:999","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VI: The Harmony of t...","type":"page"}