ST. JOHN. The Very Rev. JOHN HENRY BERNARD, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's and Lecturer in Divinity, University of Dublin.

HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS. The Rev. WILLIAM SANDAY, D.D., LL.D., Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, Oxford, and the Rev. WILLOUGHBY C. ALLEN, M.A., Fellow and Lecturer in Divinity and Hebrew, Exeter College, Oxford.

ACTS. The Rev. C. H. TURNER, D.D., Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and the Rev. H. N. BATE, M.A., Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of London.

ROMANS. The Rev. WILLIAM SANDAY, D.D., LL.D., Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and the Rev. A. C. HEADLAM, M.A., D.D., Principal of King's College, London.

[Now Ready.

CORINTHIANS. The Right Rev. ARCH. ROBERTSON, D.D., LL.D., Lord Bishop of Exeter, and DAWSON Walker, D.D., Theological Tutor in the University of Durham.

GALATIANS. The Rev. Ernest D. BURTON, D.D., Professor of New Testament Literature, University of Chicago.

EPHESIANS AND COLOSSIANS. The Rev. T. K. ABBOTT, B.D.,
D.Litt., sometime Professor of Biblical Greek, Trinity College, Dublin, now
Librarian of the same.
[Now Ready.

PHILIPPIANS AND PHILEMON. The Rev. MARVIN R. VINCENT,
D.D., Professor of Biblical Literature, Union Theological Seminary, New
York City.
[Now Ready.

THESSALONIANS. The Rev. JAMES E. FRAME, M.A., Professor of Biblical Theology, Union Theological Seminary, New York.

THE PASTORAL EPISTLES. The Rev. WALTER LOCK, D.D., Warden of Keble College and Professor of Exegesis, Oxford.

HEBREWS. The Rev. A. NAIRNE, M.A., Professor of Hebrew in King's College, London.

ST. JAMES. The Rev. JAMES H. ROPES, D.D., Bussey Professor of New Testament Criticism in Harvard University.

PETER AND JUDE. The Rev. CHARLES BIGG, D.D., Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. [Now Ready.

THE EPISTLES OF ST. JOHN. The Rev. E. A. BROOKE, B. D., Fellow and Divinity Lecturer in King's College, Cambridge.

REVELATION. The Rev. ROBERT H. CHARLES, M.A., D.D., Professor of Biblical Greek in the University of Dublin.

The

International Critical Commentary

on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and
New Testaments.

UNDER THE EDITORSHIP OF

THE REV. CHARLES AUGUSTUS BRIGGS, D.D., D.LITT., Professor of Theological Encyclopædia and Symbolics,

Union Theological Seminary, New York.

AND

THE REV. SAMUEL ROLLES DRIVER, D.D., D.LITT.,
Regius Professor of Hebrew, Oxford;

THE REV. ALFRED PLUMMER, M.A., D.D.,
Late Master of University College, Durham;

A

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL

COMMENTARY

ON THE

GOSPEL ACCORDING TO S. MATTHEW

BY

WILLOUGHBY C. ALLEN, M.A.

CHAPLAIN-FELLOW, AND LECTURER IN THEOLOGY AND HEBREW, Exeter college, OXFORD

EXAMINING CHAPLAIN TO THE BISHOP OF LICHFIELD

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

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