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When the Samaritans refused to receive him what was said?
Luke: “And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them even as Elias did?
“But he turned and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.
“For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them. And they went to another village” ([ix, 54–56]).
It is conceded by the best Christian scholars that the words “as Elias did” and all that follow, excepting “he turned and rebuked them,” are spurious.