; and Matt. x. 16: 'Behold, I ([Greek: ego]) send you forth as
sheep' ([Greek: probata]) in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore,'
&c., which, with the differences which we have indicated, agree. It
would probably be in vain to argue that the quotation indicated a
continuous order, and the variations combined to confirm the
probability of a different source, and still more so to point out
that, although parts of the quotation, separated from their context,
might, to a certain extent, correspond with scattered verses in the
first Gospel, such a circumstance was no proof that the quotation
was taken from that and from no other Gospel. The passage, however,
is a literal quotation from Luke x. 2-3, which, as we have assumed,
had been lost.
"Again, still supposing the third Gospel no longer extant, we might
find the following quotation in a work of the Fathers: 'Take heed to
yourselves ([Greek: eautois]) of the leaven of the Pharisees, which
is hypocrisy ([Greek: hetis estin hupocrisis]). For there is
nothing covered up ([Greek: sunkekalummenon]) which shall not be
revealed, and hid, which shall not be known.' It would, of course,
be affirmed that this was evidently a combination of two verses of
our first Gospel quoted almost literally, with merely a few very
immaterial slips of memory in the parts we note, and the explanatory
words, 'which is hypocrisy,' introduced by the Father, and not a
part of the quotation at all.
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