49/53 This passage (if taken from our Gospels) is not a continuous quotation, but is made up from Luke vi. It will be seen that it covers very similar ground with the quotation in Clement, and there is also a somewhat striking point of similarity with that writer in the phrase [Greek: eleeite hina eleaetheate]. There is moreover a closer resemblance than to our Gospels in the clause [Greek: aphiete kai aphethaesetai humin]. But the order of the clauses is entirely different from that in Clement, and the first clause [Greek: mae krinete hina mae krithaete] is identical with St.Matthew and more nearly resembles the parallel in St.Luke than in Clement. These are perplexing phenomena, and seem to forbid a positive judgment. |