[Greek: aphesis ton amartion], ten times in the Gospel and Acts, seven times in the rest of the New Testament, i.

77, iii.3.

[Greek: dei], Dr.Holtzmann says, 'is found more often in St.Luke than in all the other writers of the New Testament put together.' This does not appear to be strictly true; it is, however, found nineteen times in the Gospel and twenty-five times in the Acts to twenty-four times in the three other Gospels; it occurs in ii.

49, xiii.

33, xv.