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eleven.” Then as they were speaking, Jesus stood in the midst, and says to them, “Peace to you,” and so forth. It has been shown, therefore, also from Luke, that it was the same day, and the same hour is established from the fact that on one day those with Cleopas went to Emmaus, and from there returned to Jerusalem, evening having already certainly arrived; then the appearance occurred. Since, therefore, the same vision has appeared in both, come, let us see how the Savior is said in Luke to have done and said some things, and other things in John. It is similarly said, then, in both, that standing in their midst he said to them, "Peace to you." But it is distinctly added in Luke that they thought they saw a spirit, and so forth. But even if not so much is said in John, yet what follows again agrees in both. For in John after, "Peace to you," it is added, "And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side." But the reason is not given in John, as if it had already been stated in Luke; and this was that they thought they saw a spirit. 22.1001 That John, by testifying that he showed them his hands and his side, would be in agreement with the one who also set forth the reason. Following these things, Luke says, "But while they still disbelieved for joy and were marveling, he said to them, 'Have you anything here to eat?' And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish." But John did not record these things. Having arrived here, it is fitting to apply the mind, that as also in the other cases, the more solemn and divine actions and teachings of our Savior the Holy Spirit has recorded through John, but the more human things he has recorded through the others, which indeed he has also done now. For how the disciples, seeing the Savior, thought they were not seeing him but a spirit, and how they disbelieved him, and how after necessarily showing them his hands and feet, while they were still disbelieving, he asked for something to eat and ate before them. These things, being more bodily, and declaring the great disbelief of the apostles, and the condescension of the Savior himself, persuading them and clearly showing that it was indeed he, the Spirit submitted to Luke to write, as being inferior; but the better things, and those indicative of divine power, he presented through John, who also wrote these things next, "Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord;" he said to them again, "Peace to you; as the Father has sent me, I also send you; and when he had said this, he breathed on them," and so forth. The account in both would have a sequence, if we should reckon that the things in Luke were done first, and then after those things we connect the things in John. For while they were still disbelieving, he also asked for food, and not being satisfied with the eating of the fish, he also strengthens them with words, reminding them of his former teaching according to Luke. But when, at last convinced, they were fully assured that it was truly he, and were at last full of joy, then he gives to them a second peace, different and better than the first, and exhorts them to be ready for the commission, all but promising that they themselves would be like him through a like work. Then, next and consequently, he breathes into them of the Holy Spirit, as needing this for the promise that follows next; and this was the ability to forgive sins through the power of the Holy Spirit. And thus from both evangelists one common account will be completed, with the things said in Luke being passed over in silence in John; and the things delivered in writing by John being kept in silence in Luke; and with the things said in Luke coming first, and those in John being joined next to them; and thus the accounts in both preserve one mind and one meaning. So much for this.

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ἕνδεκα.» Εἶτα ὁμιλούντων αὐτῶν ἔστη ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἐν μέσῳ, καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς, «Εἰρήνη ὑμῖν,» καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. ∆έδεικται τοίνυν καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ Λουκᾶ, ὡς ἡ αὐτὴ ἐτύγχανεν ἡμέρα, καὶ ἡ αὐτὴ δὲ ὥρα συνίσταται ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐν μιᾷ ἡμέρᾳ τοὺς περὶ Κλεόπαν εἰς τὴν Ἐμμαοῦν γενέσθαι, κἀκεῖθεν ἐπανεληλυθέναι εἰς τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ, ἤδη που πάντως ἑσπέρας καταλαβούσης· εἶτα τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν γεγονέναι. Ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν ἡ αὐτὴ παρ' ἀμφοτέροις πέφηνεν ὀπτασία, φέρε ἴδωμεν ὅπως ἕτερα μὲν παρὰ τῷ Λουκᾷ εἴρηται πράξας καὶ λαλήσας ὁ Σωτὴρ, ἕτερα δὲ παρὰ τῷ Ἰωάννῃ. Ὁμοίως μὲν οὖν παρ' ἀμφοτέροις λέλεκται, ὡς ἄρα μέσος αὐτῶν στὰς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, «Εἰρήνη ὑμῖν.» Ἀφωρισμένως δὲ παρὰ τῷ Λουκᾷ πρόσκειται ὅτι ἐδόκουν πνεῦμα θεωρεῖν, καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. Ἀλλ' εἰ καὶ μὴ τοσαῦτα εἴρηται παρὰ τῷ Ἰωάννῃ, ἀλλὰ τὰ ἑξῆς πάλιν παρ' ἀμφοτέροις συνῴδει. Παρὰ μὲν γὰρ τῷ Ἰωάννῃ μετὰ τὸ, «Εἰρήνη ὑμῖν,» ἐπιλέγεται, «Καὶ τοῦτο εἰπὼν ἔδειξεν αὐτοῖς τὰς χεῖρας καὶ τὴν πλευρὰν αὐτοῦ.» Οὐ φέρεται δὲ ἡ αἰτία παρὰ τῷ Ἰωάννῃ, ὡς ἂν ἤδη λελεγμένη παρὰ τῷ Λουκᾷ· ἦν δὲ αὕτη τὸ νομίζειν αὐτοὺς πνεῦμα θεωρεῖν· ὅτι 22.1001 γε μὴν ἔδειξεν αὐτοῖς τὰς χεῖρας καὶ τὴν πλευρὰν αὑτοῦ μαρτυρήσας ὁ Ἰωάννης, σύμφωνος ἂν εἴη τῷ καὶ τὴν αἰτίαν παραθεμένῳ. Τούτοις ἑξῆς, ὁ μὲν Λουκᾶς φησιν, «Ἔτι δὲ ἀπιστούντων αὐτῶν ἀπὸ τῆς χαρᾶς καὶ θαυμαζόντων, εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, Ἔχετέ τι βρώσιμον ἐνθάδε; Οἱ δὲ ἀπέδωκαν αὐτῷ ἰχθύος ὀπτοῦ μέρος.» Ταῦτα δὲ Ἰωάννης οὐ συνέγραψεν. Ἔνθα γενομένοις ἐπιστῆσαι προσήκει τὸν νοῦν, ὡς καὶ ἐν τοῖς λοιποῖς, τὰς σεμνοτέρας καὶ θειοτέρας πράξεις τε καὶ διδασκαλίας τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν διὰ τοῦ Ἰωάννου τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον ἀπεμνημόνευσε, τὰ δὲ ἀνθρωπινώτερα διὰ τῶν λοιπῶν συνέγραψεν, ὃ δὴ καὶ νῦν πεποίηκεν. Ὡς γὰρ ἐνόμισαν οἱ μαθηταὶ ἰδόντες τὸν Σωτῆρα, μὴ αὐτὸν θεωρεῖν ἀλλὰ πνεῦμα, καὶ ὡς ἠπίστουν αὐτῷ, καὶ μετὰ τὸ δεῖξαι αὐτοῖς τὰς χεῖρας καὶ τοὺς πόδας ἀναγκαίως, ἔτι ἀπιστούντων αὐτῶν, αἰτήσας τι βρώσιμον, ἔφαγεν ἐνώπιον αὐτῶν. Ταῦτα δὲ σωματικώτερα ὄντα, καὶ πολλὴν ἀπιστίαν τῶν ἀποστόλων κατηγοροῦντα, αὐτοῦ τε τοῦ Σωτῆρος συμπεριφορὰν, πείθοντος αὐτοὺς καὶ σαφῶς παριστῶντος ὡς ἄρα αὐτὸς εἴη, τῷ Λουκᾷ ὡς ἂν ὑποδεεστέρῳ γράφειν τὸ Πνεῦμα ὑπέβαλε· τὰ δὲ κρείττονα καὶ δυνάμεως ἐνθέου παραστατικὰ διὰ τοῦ Ἰωάννου παρίστη, γράφοντος καὶ αὐτοῦ ἑξῆς ταῦτα, «Ἐχάρησαν οὖν οἱ μαθηταὶ ἰδόντες τὸν Κύριον·» εἶπεν οὖν αὐτοῖς πάλιν, «Εἰρήνη ὑμῖν· καθὼς ἀπέσταλκέ με ὁ Πατὴρ, κἀγὼ πέμπω ὑμᾶς· καὶ τοῦτο εἰπὼν ἀνεφύσησε,» καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. Ἔχοι δ' ἂν ἀκολουθίαν ὁ παρ' ἀμφοτέροις λόγος, εἰ τὰ παρὰ τῷ Λουκᾷ πρῶτα πεπράχθαι λογισαίμεθα, εἶθ' οὕτως μετ' ἐκεῖνα συνάψομεν τὰ παρὰ τῷ Ἰωάννῃ. Ἔτι μὲν γὰρ ἀπιστούντων αὐτῶν καὶ τροφὴν ᾔτει, καὶ μὴ ἀρκεσθεὶς τῇ βρώσει τοῦ ἰχθύος, καὶ λόγους αὐτοὺς στηρίζει, τῆς προτέρας αὐτοὺς ὑπομιμνήσκων διδασκαλίας κατὰ τὸν Λουκᾶν. Ὅτε δὲ λοιπὸν πεισθέντες ἐπληροφορήθησαν αὐτὸν εἶναι ἀληθῶς, καὶ λοιπὸν χαρᾶς ἦσαν μεστοὶ, τότε δευτέραν αὐτοῖς εἰρήνην ἑτέραν καὶ κρείττονα παρὰ τὴν προτέραν δίδωσι, καὶ παρακελεύεται ἑτοίμους εἶναι εἰς τὴν ἀποστολὴν, μονονουχὶ ὁμοίους αὐτῷ καὶ αὐτοὺς ἔσεσθαι διὰ τοῦ ὁμοίου ἔργου ἐπαγγειλάμενος. Εἶθ' ἑξῆς καὶ ἀκολούθως ἐμπνεῖ αὐτοῖς τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος, ὡς ἂν δεομένοις τούτου εἰς τὴν ἑξῆς ἐπιφερομένην ἐπαγγελίαν· αὕτη δὲ ἦν τὸ δύνασθαι ἀφιέναι ἁμαρτίας διὰ τῆς τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος δυνάμεως. Καὶ οὕτως ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων τῶν εὐαγγελιστῶν εἷς κοινωνὸς ἀπαρτισθήσεται λόγος, τῶν μὲν παρὰ τῷ Λουκᾷ λελεγμένων, σιωπηθέντων παρὰ τῷ Ἰωάννῃ· τῶν δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἰωάννου γραφῇ παραδοθέντων, σιγῇ ταμιευθέντων παρὰ τῷ Λουκᾷ· καὶ πρώτων μὲν τῶν παρὰ τῷ Λουκᾷ λελεγμένων, ἑξῆς δὲ ἐκείνοις συναπτομένων τῶν παρὰ τῷ Ἰωάννῃ· οὕτω τε ἕνα νοῦν καὶ μίαν διάνοιαν σωζόντων τῶν παρ' ἀμφοτέροις. Ταῦτα μὲν ταύτῃ.

Ιʹ. Πῶς δὲ παρὰ μὲν τῷ Ματθαίῳ ἄγγελος ὀφθεὶς ταῖς γυναιξὶ παρήγγειλεν ἀπαγγεῖλαι τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ, ὅτι, Ἠγέρθη ἀπὸ τῶν νεκρῶν, καὶ προάγει ὑμᾶς εἰς