{"collection":"Christian Texts","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_chr_ecf_106_1060153_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_chr_ecf_106_1060153_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_chr_ecf_106_1060153_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/106/1060153.htm","summary":"This is a chapter from a patristic theological treatise \u2014 almost certainly Augustine's *De Consensu Evangelistarum* (Harmony of the Gospels) \u2014 in the tradition of early Christian apologetics that defends the reliability of Scripture by reconciling apparent contradictions between the four Gospels. The specific subject is the Transfiguration of Christ, as narrated by Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and the chapter's central problem is why Matthew and Mark say the event occurred \"after six days\" while Luke says \"after eight days.\" The author's resolution is a careful argument about ancient counting conventions: Matthew and Mark counted only the intervening days, excluding the day of Christ's preceding statement and the day of the Transfiguration itself, while Luke used an inclusive reckoning that counted both endpoints, a figure-of-speech the author calls \"the part put for the whole.\" A secondary harmonization addresses whether Peter's suggestion to build three tabernacles occurred while Moses and Elijah were still present (as Matthew and Mark imply) or as they were departing (as Luke specifies), arguing that silence in one account does not constitute contradiction of another. The distinctively scholastic move throughout is to treat numerical and narrative discrepancies not as textual errors but as artifacts of differing rhetorical conventions, all compatible with a single underlying truth. Readers interested in early Gospel hermeneutics, ancient counting practices, or the exegetical methods used to defend biblical inerrancy will find the argument methodical and surprisingly precise.","tags":["Gospel Harmony","Sermon on the Mount","St. Augustine"],"text":null,"title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VI: The Harmony of t...","tradition":"Christian Texts","translated_text":null,"word_count":648}