Luke 3:19

“…has told us how, in the days of John’s baptizing, and at the time when the Lord, being then a grown man, was also baptized, Herod was tetrarch of Galilee; whereas Matthew tells us that the boy Jesus returned from Egypt after the death of Herod.” — editor's note: Luke iii. 1–21.

“Yet, that the incident referred to here did not, as matter of fact, occur in the order in which it is here recorded, we have already shown elsewhere; and, indeed, Luke himself puts the proof into our hands.” — editor's note: Luke iii. 15–21.

“It was in their power to abstain from reproving [sinners], and yet they chose to die; even they who had raised others chose to die themselves, “that they might obtain a better resurrection.”” — editor's note: ἐ λέγξαι, the word used of St. John Baptist reproving Herod, Luke iii. 19

“But the sacrament of baptism He founded in His own person, because “in all things having the pre-eminence,” He taught that He Himself was the Beginning.” — editor's note: Baptismi sui in se condidit sacramentum: the baptism of Christ has very generally been associated with the Epiphany: the record of it, for instance, in S. Luke…

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