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singularly remarkable blunder of St. Matthew's. One of the
characteristic features of the First Gospel - Matthew - is
to show and prove the fulfillment of some particular state-
ment or prediction in the Old Testament concerning nearly
every event in the life of Jesus Christ. He is very careless
to guard himself against contradictions, and less scrupulous
in his quotations from the Hebrew Scriptures. He is cer-
tainly not well versed in the literature of his own language.
I had occasion to refer in the preceding article of this series
to one of his blunders concerning the ass upon which Jesus
mounted. This is a most serious point directly touch-
ing the authenticity and the validity of the Gospels. Is it
possible that the Apostle Matthew should himself be ignorant
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characteristic features of the First Gospel - Matthew - is
to show and prove the fulfillment of some particular state-
ment or prediction in the Old Testament concerning nearly
every event in the life of Jesus Christ. He is very careless
to guard himself against contradictions, and less scrupulous
in his quotations from the Hebrew Scriptures. He is cer-
tainly not well versed in the literature of his own language.
I had occasion to refer in the preceding article of this series
to one of his blunders concerning the ass upon which Jesus
mounted. This is a most serious point directly touch-
ing the authenticity and the validity of the Gospels. Is it
possible that the Apostle Matthew should himself be ignorant
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