202 LIEUT.-COL. G. MACKINLAY, ON SOME LrCAN PROBLEMS. 



When the word is applied to manuscripts or documents it necessarily 

 has the same significance, it is falsification. So Cicero, in his second 

 oration against Yerres, accuses the latter of having falsified the 

 judicial registers during his term of office by deleting names, by 

 altering them, and by interpolating them. And St. Ambrose uses 

 the word in the same sense with respect to attempts to falsify the 

 Holy Scriptures. It is true that in modern science (as in astro- 

 nomical calculations) " Interpolation " is the name given to a well 

 recognized and perfectly legitimate process. But in general, and 

 especially where we are dealing with documents, " Interpolation " 

 has a sinister meaning, and hence it is not right that it should be 

 used in the present connection. 



The Rev. A. Irving, B.A., D.Sc, welcomed Colonel Mackinlay's 

 attempt to present some results of recent research, he thanked the 

 author for the great pains and laboiu: bestowed upon his paper and 

 for the ingenious construction of the diagram. But he could not 

 resist the conclusion that the facts had been represented in an 

 untrue perspective. 



In the first place the fact that the Lucan evangelium was only the 

 first of two volumes of one continued histmnj seemed to have been 

 lost sight of. It appeared to be a fundamental misconception to 

 make Luke's arrangement of his materials focus on the Crucifixion 

 of the Lord Jesus as the final goal. Luke looked forward beyond 

 the gloom of Calvary, to the great Pentecostal Illumination, and to 

 the opening of the door of faith to the Gentiles. 



In the second place it appeared that the author seemed to have 

 forgotten that St. Luke, as an educated Gentile, had the instruction 

 and edification of the Gentile churches for his primary object : and 

 a careful perusal of the remarks relating to both the great Omission 

 and the two main Insertions dealt with in the paper might enable 

 anyone to see that our Evangelist had made his additions to the 

 Marcan narrative, while omitting from his own history large por- 

 tions of what had been already well recorded by Mark. 



Mr. Martin Eouse, B.A., said : Most assuredly Colonel Mac- 

 kinlay is right in saying that Luke, from the end of his tenth 

 chapter, goes back to a time just preceding the Sermon on the 

 Mount, when the Saviour had taught men how to pray, and had 

 given the same pattern of prayers that we find at the outset of 

 chapter xi. Xow the sermon was delivered in the middle of the 



