{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/106/1060197.htm","path":"chr/ecf/106/1060197.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/106/1060197.htm","text":"Chapter XVIII.\u2014Of the Lord\u2019s Successive Utterances When He Was About to Die; And of the Question Whether Matthew and Mark are in Harmony with Luke in Their Reports of These Sayings, and Also Whether These Three Evangelists are in Harmony with John.\n55. Matthew proceeds as follows: \u201cAnd Jesus, crying again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.\u201d 1446 In like manner, Mark says, \u201cAnd Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.\u201d 1447 Luke, again, has told us what He said when that loud voice was uttered. For his version is thus: \u201cAnd Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit: and saying this, He gave up the ghost.\u201d 1448 John, on the other hand, as he has left unnoticed the first voice, which Matthew and Mark have reported\u2014namely, \u201cEli, Eli\u201d\u2014has also passed over in silence the one which has been recited only by Luke, while the other two have referred to it under the designation of the \u201cloud voice.\u201d I allude to the cry, \u201cFather, into Thy hands I commend my spirit.\u201d Luke has also attested the fact that this exclamation was uttered with a loud voice; and hence we may understand this particular cry to be identified with the loud voice which Matthew and Mark have specified. But John has stated a fact which is noticed by none of the other three, namely, that He said \u201cIt is finished,\u201d after He had received the vinegar. This cry we take to have been uttered previous to the loud voice referred to. For these are John\u2019s words: \u201cWhen Jesus, therefore, had received the vinegar, He said, It is finished; and He bowed His head, and gave up the ghost.\u201d 1449 In the interval elapsing between this cry, \u201cIt is finished,\u201d and what is referred to in the subsequent sentence, \u201cand He bowed His head and gave up the ghost,\u201d the voice was uttered which John himself has passed over without record, but which the other three have noticed. For the precise succession appears to be this, namely, that He said first \u201cIt is finished,\u201d when what had been prophesied regarding Him was fulfilled in Him, and that thereafter\u2014as if He had been waiting for this, like one, indeed, who died when He willed it to be so\u2014He commended His p. 205 spirit [to His Father], and resigned it. 1450 But, whatever the order may be in which a person may consider it likely that these words were spoken, he ought above all things to guard against entertaining the notion that any one of the evangelists is in antagonism with another, when one leaves unmentioned something which another has repeated, or particularizes something which another has passed by in silence.\n[This view of the order is altogether the more probable one. See commentaries.\u2014R.]","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VI: The Harmony of t...","type":"page"}