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of delivery up to the Gentiles, of mockery, shameful spitting, 

 and scourging, of killing and rising again ; and the third 

 prophecy adds the detail that our Lord was to be cast out 

 before He was killed. 



It will thus be seen that we have no less than nine prophecies 

 of the Death of our Lord in Luke (A), Luke (B), and Luke (C), 

 three in each, no more and no less, or a triplication of triplica- 

 tions (No. 4). We have noticed that the first in Luke (A), and 

 the third in Luke (C), are both more striking than that in 

 Luke (B) ; this is to be expected under the circumstances, 

 because the first triplication draws great attention, and the 

 last one is emphatic, because it immediately heralds the climax ; 

 the intermediate one, in Luke (B), serving as a link betwe(in 

 the two, is more suppressed. 



Luke (A), Luke (B), and Luke (C) also each contain another 

 triplication, emphasizing a main doctrine of the Christian faith. 

 In Luke (A) man's failure is emphasized by the account of three 

 men who, one after another, hesitated to obey our Lord's 

 command to follow Him (No. 8) ; their action is in strong 

 contrast with the spiritual teaching of this section of the 

 Gospel, which may be summed up in the words contained in it : 

 " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with 

 all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind ; 

 and thy neighbour as thyself " (x, 27). 



In Luke (B) God's certain judgment on sinners is emphasized 

 by the sentence on the fig-tree unfruitful for three years 

 (No. 10). This agrees with the doctrinal teaching of this 

 section, which may be summed up by our Lord's words contained 

 in it : " Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish " (xiii, 5). 



In Luke (C) Christ seeking to save the lost by His Atoning 

 Death is emphasized by the three Parables of the lost sheep, the 

 lost piece of silver, and the lost son (No. 12). This is a fuller 

 doctrinal triplication than either of the others, and its force is 

 increased by the fact that in each case only one lost one is 

 sought for and found. In the Parable of the lost son, a very 

 personal touch is given in the subsidiary triplication (No. 13) 

 by the use of the Greek word ovto<^, translated by the word 

 " this " in the passages, " this My son," " this Thy son," " this 

 thy brother." These triplications emphasize the doctrinal teach- 

 ing of this section of the Gospel, which may be summed up 

 by the words of our Lord contained in it : " The Son of Man 

 came to seek and to save that which was lost" (xix, 10). 



It is interesting to notice the resemblance between the 

 verbal construction of this last trinlication and the first one which 



