{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/106/1060190.htm","path":"chr/ecf/106/1060190.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/106/1060190.htm","text":"Chapter XI.\u2014Of the Consistency of Matthew\u2019s Version with that of Mark in the Account of the Potion Offered Him to Drink, Which is Introduced Before the Narrative of His Crucifixion.\n38. Matthew then proceeds in these terms: \u201cAnd they came unto a place called Golgotha; that is to say, a place of a skull.\u201d 1377 So far as the place is concerned, they are most unmistakeably at one. The same Matthew next adds, \u201cand they gave Him wine 1378 to drink, mingled with gall; and when He had tasted thereof, He would not drink.\u201d 1379 This is given by Mark as follows: \u201cAnd they gave Him to drink wine mingled with myrrh; and He received it not.\u201d 1380 Here we may understand Matthew to have conveyed the same sense as Mark, when he speaks of the wine being \u201cmingled with gall.\u201d For the gall is mentioned with a view to express the bitterness of the potion. And wine mingled with myrrh is remarkable for its bitterness. The fact may also be that gall and myrrh together made the wine exceedingly bitter. Again, when Mark says that \u201cHe received it not,\u201d we understand the phrase to denote that He did not receive it so as actually to drink it. He did taste p. 197 it, however, as Matthew certifies. Thus Mark\u2019s words, \u201cHe received it not,\u201d convey the same meaning as Matthew\u2019s version, \u201cHe would not drink.\u201d The former, however, has said nothing about His tasting the potion.\nVinum. [So the correct Greek text. Comp. Revised Version.\u2014R.]\n196:1379 196:1380","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VI: The Harmony of t...","type":"page"}