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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: gospel; that of Luke, the humanitarian gospel; that of John the spiritual gospel. Or it might be put thus: Matthew records the sayings of Jesus; Mark, His mighty acts;. Luke reveals His human heart; John, the secrets of His divine nature. But all of these classifications are necessarily imperfect. Each evangelist was to some extent an independent witness; yet the four separate gospels unite together in forming one stream of historic testimony in behalf of the manifestation of God in human life, which has made glad the waste places of the earth, and has made the wilderness to blossom as the rose. chapter{Section 4THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW THE WRITER The man with whose name the first gospel is connected was a collector of customs from merchants crossing the Sea of Galilee. The name given to him by Mark and Luke is Levi. He calls himself by his Christian name "Matthew," but with a touch of humility adds, "the publican," in reference to the unsavory profession which he had abandoned. He was the son of Alphaeus (Mark ii. 14); probably not the Alphaeus mentioned as the father of James, and a member of the apostolic band (Matt. x. 3; Mark iii. 18). His duties as a publican would bring him into disrepute with his countrymen, who hated all agents of the foreign despotism under which they groaned. The social ostracism from which men of this class usually suffered may have produced, or may have fostered, that rapacity and avarice for which publicans were noted. It was an audacious act to choose a follower from this class. But Jesus,who had probablyoften marked the man Levi at his post, called him one day to follow Him, and he obeyed. The beginning of the new career was celebrated by the assumption or bestowal of the new name, "Matthew," which signifies "the gift of God," and b...

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