46.
[Greek: Ti de me kaleite Kurie, Kurie, kai ou poeite a lego;] This is one of a class of passages which form the _cruces_ of Synoptic criticism.

It is almost equally difficult to think and not to think that both the canonical parallels are drawn from the same original.

The great majority of German critics maintain that they are, and most of these would seek that original in the 'Spruchsammlung' or 'Collection of Discourses' by the Apostle St.
Matthew.

This is usually (though not quite unanimously) held to have been preserved most intact in the first Gospel.

But if so, the Lucan version represents a wide deviation from the original, and precisely in proportion to the extent of that deviation is the probability that the Clementine quotation is based upon it.