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account ior the omission of any record of the disciples forgetting 

 to take bread* in the boat. Finally it is suggested that the 

 mention of the term " dogs,"f applied to the Syrophoenician 

 woman and her daughter, would not be pleasing to the Gentile 

 readers to whom St. Lake's Gospel is chiefly addressed, and 

 therefore the story by Mark in which this word appears is not 

 reproduced by Luke. 



Our author, however, repeatedly J warns us that much stress 

 must not be laid on the supposed tendency of Luke to avoid 

 the narration of somewhat similar incidents and sayings, 

 because there are several instances whei'e such duplications§ 

 exist in his Gospel. He also warns us not to exaggerate Luke's 

 general avoidance of an ti- Pharisaic controversy " for we have 

 to bear in mind the unparalleled reference to the Pharisees as 

 ' lovers of money ' in Luke xvi, 14, 15, and the rebukes 

 delivered at the tables of the Pharisees in Luke vii, ff., and 

 xiv, l-14."i| We may further add that too much stress must 

 not be laid on Luke's tendency " to spare the twelve," because 

 he twicelF records the unseemly strife as to who should be the 

 greatest among them ; the failure of nine of them to cure the 

 demoniac, and the Lord's remark when He heard of it,** are 

 also recorded by this Evangelist. With regard to the last 

 incident it would be easy to argue, as our author hints might 

 be done, that the story of the Syrophoenician woman might 

 well have appeared in St. Luke's Gospel as an encouragement 

 to his Gentile readers, because she received such very high 

 praise and commendation from the Saviour. 



It i-s an objection to the whole of this last method of 

 explanation that a long consecutive portion of Mark's Gospel, 

 containing a series of nine incidents and sayings, should all be 

 considered unsuitable by Luke for a variety of reasons. As he 

 generally follows a Marcan source, we should expect to find that 

 the parts of Mark, which Luke might have considered unsuit- 

 able for his purpose, would be interspersed more uniformly in 

 the narrative of the former, and not all clustered close together 

 in one long consecutive passage. 



* Mark viii, 14. 



t S.S.P., p. 73, Mark vii, 27, 28. 

 t S.S.P., pp. 35, 56, 68. 



I Compare Luke ix, 1 flP., with x, 1 ff. ; v, 12 ff., with xvii, 12 ff. ; viii, 

 19 tf., with xi, 27 tf. ; and ix, 46, with xxii, 24. 

 li ^'.6'. P., p. 70. 



nr Luke ix, 46-48 ; xxii, 24-27. 

 Luke ix, 40, 41. 



