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his purposes, hopes and beHefs and must be somehow escaped. That 

 a critical fact occurred at this time the tradition as given in the 

 synoptics recognized, but the nature of it was missed and the 

 miracle came in to fill the gap ; the way being opened for it by the 

 strong, but confused impression made by the whole series of events 

 on the minds of the eyewitnesses, whose senses in the excitement 

 deceived them or were misinterpreted afterwards. Their confusion 

 remained on record in the enigmatical ov 'yap avvrjKav of Mark, 

 and the real fact in the transposition of the Messianic confession of 

 Luke. 



The significant words about which the whole story crystallized 

 would seem to be : i^vdyKaae — airrjkOev ek to opo^ — avrb'^ r/v ijrl 

 tt)? 77)9 — elSev avTOv<; — cttI tt)? 6a\dcrcn]<^ — rjOekev (rjdekov) — ov 

 yap <7VV7]/cav — iirl rot? dproi'^. 



