How, too, did he come to have the paraphrastic reading of Matt.

The, in any case, paraphrastic quotation or quotations which find a parallel in Matt.

It is obvious that if he is quoting St. John the quotation is throughout paraphrastic.

We will give an example of this, and at the same time of his paraphrastic method of quotation:-

It is almost too much when, as from the pulpit, a paraphrastic commentary is prepared for our spiritual improvement.