Hence the extent to which quotations from the latter are found in the former. The number is no fewer than two hundred and eighty-four: of these forty-five are found in St. Matthew, thirty-four in each of the two succeeding Gospels, and twenty in St. John. Passing over the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles, having their due proportion of citations, and coming to the Apocalypse, we find as many as two hundred and forty-five recognitions of the Old Testament gleaming from its twenty-two chapters.
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