{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/106/1060148.htm","path":"chr/ecf/106/1060148.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/106/1060148.htm","text":"Chapter LI.\u2014Of Matthew\u2019s Declaration That, on Leaving These Parts, He Came into the Coasts of Magedan; And of the Question as to His Agreement with Mark in that Intimation, as Well as in the Notice of the Saying About Jonah, Which Was Returned Again as an Answer to Those Who Sought a Sign.\n106. Matthew continues as follows: \u201cAnd He sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magedan;\u201d and so on, down to the words, \u201cA wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it but the sign of the prophet Jonas.\u201d 1080 This has already been recorded in another connection by the same Matthew. 1081 Hence again and again we must hold by the position that the Lord spake the same words on repeated occasions; so that when any completely irreconcilable difference appears between statements of His utterances, we are to understand the words to have been spoken twice over. In this case, indeed, Mark also keeps the same order; and after his account of the miracle of the seven loaves, subjoins the same intimation as is given us in Matthew, only with this difference, that Matthew\u2019s expression for the locality is not Dalmanutha, as is read in certain codices, but Magedan. 1082 There is no reason, however, for questioning the fact that it is the same place that is intended under both names. For most codices, even of Mark\u2019s Gospel, give no other reading than that of Magedan. 1083 Neither should any difficulty be felt in the fact that Mark does not say, as Matthew does, that in the answer which the Lord returned to those who sought after a sign, He referred to Jonah, but mentions simply that He replied in these terms: \u201cThere shall no sign be given unto it.\u201d For we are given to understand what kind of sign they asked\u2014namely, one from heaven. And he has simply omitted to specify the words which Matthew has introduced regarding Jonas.\n[\u201cMagdala,\u201d as the Authorized Version reads in Matthew, is poorly supported, and was probably substituted by some ignorant scribe for \u201cMagadan\u201d (comp. Revised Version). In Mark viii. 10, however, the reading \u201cDalmanutha\u201d is well attested. Augustin refers to Latin codices.\u2014R.]","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VI: The Harmony of t...","type":"page"}