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Allen, Willoughby C. Critical and exegetical commentary on the Gospel according to St. Matthew. (International critical commentary.) *$3. Scribner.
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For the student who desires to have some understanding of the growth and development of the gospel literature in the first century, A.D., and of the meaning which this particular gospel had for the evangelist and his first readers. “While the author has striven to preserve the distinction between the sphere of the commentator and that of the historian, questions of credibility and theological implication are not entirely avoided, his attitude being for the most part conservative.” (Nation.)