or unconsciously reproducing what he remembered of it, rather than such as would be found if he had had a written document to quote from. If this be so, we have a strong confirmation of the view adopted at the outset, that this Epistle is the work of the Lord's brother, who had personal experience of Christ's conversation, and was independent of both the oral and the written tradition of His teaching. It will be worth while to tabulate the principal coincidences, so that the reader may be able to judge for himself as to their significance. They suffice to show how full the mind of St. James must have been of the teaching of Jesus Christ, and they lead to the highly probable conjecture that in other parts of the Epistle we have reminiscences of Christ's words of which we have no record in the Gospels.[92] It is not likely that St. James has remembered and reproduced only those sayings of which there is something recorded by the Evangelists. ST. MATTHEW. ST. JAMES. 1. Blessed are they that have Count it all joy, my brethren, been persecuted for righteousness' when ye fall into manifold sake: for theirs is the temptations; knowing that the kingdom of heaven. Blessed proof of your faith worketh are ye when men shall reproach patience (i. 2, 3). you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you Take, brethren, for an example falsely, for My sake. Rejoice of suffering and of patience, and be exceeding glad: for the prophets who spake in the great is your reward in heaven: name of the Lord. Behold, we for so persecuted they the prophets call them blessed which endured which were before you (v. 10, 11). (v. 10-12). 2. Ye therefore shall be perfect, And let patience have its as your heavenly Father is perfect work, that ye may be perfect (v. 48). perfect and entire, lacking in nothing (i. 4). 3. Ask, and it shall be given But if any of you lacketh you; seek, and ye shall find; wisdom, let him ask of God, knock, and it shall be opened who giveth to all liberally and unto you: for every one that upbraideth not; and it shall be asketh receiveth (vii. 7, 8). given him (i. 5). 4. Blessed are the poor in Let the brother of low degree spirit: for theirs is the kingdom glory in his high estate (i. 9). of heaven (v. 3. Comp. Luke vi. 20). Did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom? (ii. 5).