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A Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture is the result of nine years of work by a group of scholars who believed that biblical learning must be integrated with traditional Christianity if it was to bear any spiritual message or fruit for modern society. Their endeavor was to sum up the results of recent international scholarship, and to put them at the disposal not only of Catholics but also of...

is adroitly § g chosen since the game of ‘funerals’ recalls the stern Baptist while the merrier game suggests the less unbending conduct of Jesus; cf. 9:10–15. Divine wisdom, effecting the design of salvation through both John and Jesus, is vindicated by its result (‘works’ WV; not ‘children’ DV—probably a harmonization with Lk 7:35). Its effect is to demonstrate the insincerity of the opposition. The same message was delivered by John and Jesus, each using a different approach; the rejection of
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