The Lost Gospel and Its Contents eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 197 pages of information about The Lost Gospel and Its Contents.

The Lost Gospel and Its Contents eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 197 pages of information about The Lost Gospel and Its Contents.

Matthew, i.

“And in the gospel according to Matthew the genealogy which begins with Abraham is continued down to Mary, the mother of the Lord.  ‘For,’ it is said, ’from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David to the carrying away into Babylon,” &c.  (Miscellanies, i. 21.)

Matthew, iii.

    “For the fan is in the Lord’s hand, by which the chaff due to the
    fire is separated from the wheat.” (Instructor, i. 9.)

Matthew, iv.

    “Therefore He Himself, urging them on to salvation, cries, ’The
    Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.’” (Exhortation to Heathen, ch. ix.)

Matthew, v.

    “And because He brought all things to bear on the discipline of the
    soul, He said, ’Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the
    earth.’” (Miscellanies, iv. 6.)

Mark, i.

    “For he also ‘ate locusts and wild honey.’” [In St. Matthew the
    corresponding expression being ’His food was locusts and wild
    honey.’] (Instructor, ii. 11.)

Luke, iii.

“And to prove that this is true it is written in the Gospel by Luke as follows:  ’And in the fifteenth year, in the reign of Tiberius Caesar, the word of the Lord came to John, the son of Zacharias.’  And again, Jesus was coming to His baptism, being about thirty years old,’ and so on.” (Miscellanies, i. 21.)

There are at least twenty more references to the accounts of the preaching of St. John in the third of St. Matthew, first of St. Mark, and third of St. Luke, in Clement’s writings, which I have not given simply because it is difficult to assign the quotation to a particular Evangelist, as the account is substantially the same in the three.

Luke xii. 16-20.

“Of this man’s field (the rich fool) the Lord, in the Gospel, says that it was fertile, and afterwards, when he wished to lay by his fruits and was about to build greater barns,” &c. (Miscellanies, iii. 6.)

Luke xiii. 32.

    “Thus also in reference to Herod, ’Go tell that fox, Behold, I cast
    out devils,’” &c. (Miscellanies, iv. 6.)

Luke xiv. 12, 13.

“He says accordingly, somewhere, ’When thou art called to a wedding recline not on the highest couch.’ ...  And elsewhere, ’When thou makest a dinner or a supper,’ and again, ’But, when thou makest an entertainment, call the poor.’” (Instructor, ii. 1.)

Luke, xv.  Parable of Prodigal Son.

    “For it were not seemly that we, after the fashion of the rich man’s
    son in the Gospel, should, as prodigals, abuse the Father’s gifts.” 
    (Instructor, ii. ch. i.)

John, i.

“You have then God’s promise; you have His love:  become partakers of His grace.  And do not suppose the song of salvation to be new, as a vessel or a house is new; for ... in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (Exhortation to Heathen, ch. i.)

    “For He has said, ’In the beginning the Word was in God, and the
    Word was God.” (Instructor, viii.)

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