1817 Dec r 1

Not Paul

II. Doctrine

Ch. In Jesus

Irr

Jesus’s allusions

In the Gospel according to Saint Matthew the upbraidings it

will be observed follow almost immediately after the account of the first-mentioned

mission viz. that of the Apostles, and neither in Saint Matthew, Saint Mark or Saint

John is any mention to be found of the mission of the seventy. By /Out of/ this

discrepancy arises some perplexity, but any such attempt /undertaking/ /enterprize/

as that of an attempt to clear it up would occupy too much space, and lead us too

wide of the present purpose.

As to Tyre and Sidon in Matthew xv and Mark vii mention is made of the healing of the young woman of

Canaan according to Matthew, a Greek by nation a Syro-phœnecian according to Mark out

of whom a devil or unclean spirit was expelled. The coasts (Matthew) or borders

(Mark) of Tyre and Sidon is the description given of the place. Is it to this that

the mention made of the works done in Tyre and Sidon in Saint Luke bear reference?

Neither in Saint Luke however any more than in Saint John is any mention of this

miracle to be found.

The works here mentioned as being done in the neighbourhood of Tyre and Sidon are

here mentioned as inferior to those done in the neighbourhood of Bethsaida. Inferior

in respect of notoriety a miracle wrought in a house as according to Mark Mark vii. 24 was this of the dispossession might well be deemed

when compared with a miracle wrought in the presence of 5000 witnesses.

Unhappily in Matthew the up[b]raidings bestowed upon Chorazin and Bethsaida and the

comparison thereupon made between the miracles wrought at Bethsaida /those places/

and those wrought near Tyre and Sidon are placed long before the account given in the

same Gospel of the miracle wrought near Tyre and Sidon: the upbradings being in

Chapter xi and the Tyre and Sidon miracles not till Chapter

xv. At Bethsaid Mark mentions moreover the cure of a

blind man: but it is not till Chapter viii, whereas the

mention made by Mark of the dispossession near Tyre and Sidon is in Chapter vii.