[122] This incompatibility of the two narratives was perceived at an early period by some opponents of Christianity. Epiphanius names one Philosabbatius, together with Celsus and Porphyry (hæres. li. 8). [↑]
[123] Neander, L. J. Ch. s. 33, Anm. [↑]
[124] Schleiermacher, Ueber den Lukas, s. 47. Schneckenburger, ut sup. [↑]
[125] Antiq. xiv. ix. 4, xv. i. 1 and x. 4. [↑]
[126] The Evang. Nicodemi indeed calls him, c. xvi. ὁ μέγας διδάσκαλος, and the Protev. Jacobi, c. xxiv. makes him a priest or even high priest, vid. Varr. ap. Thilo Cod. Apocr. N. T. 1, s. 271, comp. 203. [↑]
[128] Cap. vi. Viditque illum Simeon senex instar columnæ lucis refulgentem, cum Domina Maria virgo, mater ejus, ulnis suis eum gestaret,—et circumdabant eum angeli instar circuli, celebrantes illum, etc. Ap. Thilo, p. 71. [↑]
[129] Thus E. F. in the treatise, on the two first chapters of [Matth.] and [Luke.] In Henke’s Mag. 5 bd. s. 169 f. A similar half measure is in Matthäi, Synopse der 4 Evan. s. 3, 5 f. [↑]
[130] With the words of Simeon addressed to Mary: καὶ σοῦ δὲ αὐτῆς τὴν ψυχὲν διελεύσεται ῥομφαία ([v. 35]) comp. the words in the messianic psalm of sorrow, [xxii. 21]: ῥῦσαι ἀπὸ ῥομφαίας τὴν ψυχέν μου. [↑]
[131] Schleiermacher, Ueber den Lukas, s. 37. Compare on the other hand the observations in § 18, with those of the authors there quoted, Note 19. [↑]