[Phases of Faith by Francis William Newman]@TWC D-Link bookPhases of Faith CHAPTER VI 31/33
The Septuagint has the _foundry_, De Wette has the _treasury_, with whom Hitzig and Ewald agree.
So Winer (Simoni's Lexicon).] [Footnote 5: Some of my critics are very angry with me for saying this; but Matthew himself (xxi.
4) almost says it:--"_All this was done, that it might be fulfilled_," &c.
Do my critics mean to tell me that Jesus _was not aware_ of the prophecy? or if Jesus did know of the prophecy, will they tell me _that he was not designing_ to fulfil it? I feel such carping to be little short of hypocrisy.] [Footnote 6: Apparently on these words of mine, a reviewer builds up the inference that I regard "the Evangelical narrative as a mythical fancy-piece imitated from David and Isaiah." I feel this to be a great caricature.
My words are carefully limited to a few petty details of one part of the narrative.] [Footnote 7: I did not calculate that any assailant would be so absurd as to lecture me on the topic, that God has no sympathy _with our sins and follies_.
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