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use of such awkward expressions as the autumn of the second 

 year before the Crucifixion, etc. The bracket shows the 

 Sabbath year.* 



Eeference verses are given at various places. It will be 

 noticed in the diagram that spaces are alloted according to 

 chronology and not according to the number of chapters and 

 verses assigned to different incidents. Thus, the events at 

 Jerusalem before, at, and after the Crucifixion occupy five long 

 chapters at the end of the gospel ; but as they all occurred in 

 a short period of time, a short space only is given to them at 

 the end of and just after Luke (C). 



We have thus briefly shown the structure of the central 

 chapters of the Gospel of St. Luke according to the new 

 explanation. The object of this threefold arrangement is 

 doubtless to draw emphatic attention to that which comes just 

 after the end of all the narratives — the Death and Eesurrection 

 of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is pre-eminently the aim and 

 object of the whole gospel. It is fully in accord with St. Luke's 

 methods to make use of threefold repetition in order to give 

 great emphasis.f 



New Explanations of the Lucan Problems. 



Granting then the existence of the three narratives, it is 

 natural to expect — 



(a) Some distinctive feature in each. 



(h) Some general resemblances or interdependence of arrange- 

 ment between them. 



We propose to show that the great Insertion materially aids 

 to differentiate the narratives from each other, and that the 

 lesser Insertion and the great Omission create resemblances in 

 the general arrangement of each narrative. Fresh explanations 

 will thus be given of these three Lucan problems. 



For the demonstration of this date see The Magi, how they recognized 

 Christ's Star, p. 103, Lieut.-Col. G. Mackinlay, 1907. 



t Emphatic attention is drawn by Luke vii, 12 ; viii, 42, and ix, 38, to 

 the Death and Eesurrection of the " Only " Begotten Son of God. By 

 Luke XV, 4, 8 and 32, to Luke xix, 10 ; by Acts ix, 3-19 ; xxii, 5-16, and 

 xxvi, 12-20, and also by Acts x, 1-48 ; xi, 4-18, and xv, 7-9, to the 

 preaching of the Gospel to the Gentiles ; St. Luke gives several other 

 instances of threefold repetition with the same object in view. 



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