30.
[Greek: Humon de ho pataer oiden hoti chraezete touton.] The natural inference from the exactness of this coincidence with the language of Matthew as compared with Luke, is not neutralised by the paraphrastic addition from Matt.vi.8, because such additions and combinations, as will have been seen from our table of quotations from the Old Testament, are of frequent occurrence.
The quotation of Matt.v.45 (= Luke vi.

35) is a good example of the way in which the pseudo-Clement deals with quotations.

The passage is quoted as often as four times, with wide difference and indeed complete confusion of text.

It is impossible to determine what text he really had before him; but through all this confusion there is traceable a leaning to the Matthaean type rather than the Lucan, ([Greek: [ho] pat[aer ho] en [tois] ouranois ...

ton aelion autou anatellei epi agathous kai ponaerous]).