34; Luke xii.
31.] [Footnote 6: Luke xvii.

20, 21.] [Footnote 7: The grand theory of the revelation of the Son of Man is in fact reserved, in the synoptics, for the chapters which precede the narrative of the Passion.

The first discourses, especially in Matthew, are entirely moral.] [Footnote 8: Matt.xiii.54 and following; Mark vi.

2 and following; John v.

43.] [Footnote 9: The tradition of the plainness of Jesus (Justin, _Dial.
cum Tryph._, 85, 88, 100) springs from a desire to see realized in him a pretended Messianic trait (Isa.liii.