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48 THE FOUR GOSPELS. 12. Whose winnowing shovel is in His hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse His floor, and gather His wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

13. Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan, unto John, to be baptized by him.

14. But John stayed Him, saying: I ought to be baptized by Thee, and comest thou to me?

15. And answering, said to him: Suffer it at present: for so it becometh us to fulfil all justice. Then he suffered Him.

16. And being baptized, forthwith came out of the water: and lo! the heavens were opened to Him; and He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon Him.

17. And behold a voice from heaven, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

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den it down on the threshing floor, and it was also used to cast it inte the fire.
 * It served to throw up into the air the straw, after the oxen had trod-

the fire which the justice of Carisr onkindles is unquenchable.
 * The fire in which the straw was burnt up, was soon extinguished :

> Mark i. 9. * Lit. “ Hindered him.” end sanctified ky Cheist. “© 4 Cathulic.”
 * «Have need.” John acknowledged that he neeled to be purifie!

7 “ Every ordinance.” Cath. Thatis, everything that appertains to re- ligious ceremonial and public edification ; every divine ordinance. The baptism of John, altheugh not of divine institution, might be considered as sharing ingthe sanction given te his mission. ‘ Justice,” says St. Chrysostom, in foc., “is the fulfilment of sll the commandments.”


 * The scattering of clouds is like the opening of the heavens.

Christ was thereby confirmed, since this was the token divinely given by which to recognise Him. Join i. 33.
 * Luke iii. 22. Christ saw it, and John likewise, whose knowledge of

“ Tt is generally thought that the Holy Spirit assumed the shape of a dove, although some explain it of His descent on our Lord in some sen- sible way, as if a dove descended, since her manner is peculiar.

" Thunder is called the voice of God. Articulate sounds were heard on this occasion.

% Luke ix. 35; 2 Peter i.17. Every just man is a child of God; bat Christ is the beloved, the only true san.

» There is a Hebraism in this use of the preposition. “ With whom * ie better English, but in whom expresses the delight which the Father takea in Hia Son.