Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: function of the evangelists in the apostolic church ? How could the original tendency fail to come out at some point of the description ? Holtzmann thinks that in what follows Luke conjoins two distinct accoiints?that of the scribe (vers. 25-28), which we find inMark xii. 28 and Matt. xxii. 35, and the parable of the good Samaritan taken from the Logia. The connection which our Gospel establishes between the two events (ver. 29) is nothing else than a rather unskilful combination on the part of Luke. But there is no proof that the scribe of Luke is the same as that spoken of by Mark and Matthew. It is at Jerusalem, and in the days which precede the passion, that this latter appears; and above all, as Meyer acknowledges, the matter of discussion is entirely different. The scribe of Jerusalem asks Jesus which is the greatest commandment. His is a theological question. That of Galilee, like the rich young man, desires Jesus to point out to him the means of salvation. His is a practical question. Was there but one Kabbin in Israel who could enter into discussion with Jesus on such subjects ? It is possible, no doubt, that some external details belonging to one of those scenes got mixed up in tradition with the narrative of the other. But the moral contents form the essential matter, and they are too diverse to admit of being identified. As to the connection which ver. 29 establishes between the interview and the parable which follows, it is confirmed by the lesson which flows from the parable (vers. 36,3 7), and about the authenticity of which there is no doubt. Vers. 25-28.1 The Work which saves.?In Greece the object of search is truth; in Israel it is salvation. So this same question is found again in the mouth of the rich young man. ?The expression stood up shows that Jesus and...