Both these allusions have some probability, though neither can be regarded as at all certain.

The Epistle to the Trallians has one coincidence in c.

xi, 'These are not plants of the Father' ([Greek: phyteia Patros]), which recalls the striking expression of Matt.xv.13, 'Every plant ([Greek: pasa phyteia]) that my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up.' This is a marked metaphor, and it is not found in the other Synoptics; it is therefore at least more probable that it is taken from St.
Matthew.

The same must be said of another remarkable phrase in the Epistle to the Smyrnaeans, c.

vi, [Greek: ho choron choreito] ([Greek: ho dynamenos chorein choreito], Matt.xix.