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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL

COMMENTARY

ON THE

GOSPEL ACCORDING TO S. MATTHEW

BY

WILLOUGHBY C. ALLEN, M.A.

CHAPLAIN-FELLOW, AND LECTURER IN THEOLOGY AND HEBREw, Exeter College, oxFORD
EXAMINING ChaplaIN TO THE BISHOP OF LICHFIELD

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

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Similar treatment of the Second Gospel by S. Luke xxxv-xxxviii
These agreements due in part to independent revision of

Mk. by Mt. and Lk..

Xxxviii-xxxix

Mt. and Lk. had no second source containing matter
parallel to the whole of Mk.

PREFACE

PERHAPS no one, especially during the last thirty years, has undertaken to write a Commentary on one of the Canonical Gospels, without experiencing again and again, during the process of production, that he had undertaken a task which was beyond both his strength and his equip ment. That has certainly been my own experience in writing this Commentary on the First Gospel. For a commentator upon this book, who is to do his work efficiently, should have many qualifications. He should be a competent Greek scholar, versed in the Hellenistic Greek literature, and acquainted with the bearing of modern archæological discovery upon the history of the language. He should be acquainted also with the Hebrew of the Old Testament, with the various Aramaic dialects, and with. the later dialects of the Talmuds and Midrashim. If the writings of Deissmann on the one hand, and of Wellhausen and Dalman on the other, have shown what new light can be thrown upon the New Testament by experts in their own department, they have also illustrated the defective character of a one-sided knowledge, and have given indications of the sort of work that may be done by a scholar of the future, who shall be at the same time a Grecian and an Orientalist. The commentator should further be a master of the material for the textual criticism of the Gospel, which is in itself the study of a lifetime. He should have a thorough knowledge of the literature dealing with the so-called Synoptic Problem, and should have formed a

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