Jesus as They Saw Him, Vol. 2: The Gospel According to Luke (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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When we call in what are known as the unwritten sayings of Jesus - sayings, that is, which are not found in the Gospels, but are attributed to Him in the writings of the Fathers and elsewhere - we find that they very often fit in with some such scheme as this. Every word that a man shall not speak, he shall give an account thereof in the day of judgement - a saying reported in the Palestinian Syriac version of the Gospels - obviously answers to Every idle word that a man shall speak '1; compare also Good must needs come - ascribed to Jesus in the Clementine Homilies - with It must needs be that offences come (luke xvii. 1, Another saying found in Ephrem's Commentary upon the Diates saron, Tatian's Harmony of the Four Gospels (see App. III.) He who does not preach commits a sin in a frag ment of Irenaeus's Letter to Victor, When a man is able to do good, and doeth it not, he is alien from the love of God as well as in Justin Martyr (dialogue with Trypho, and underlying Jas. Iv. 17 and 1 Cor. Ix. 16,-provides a perfect balance to Give not the holy thing to the dogs.'

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