Luke also gives this as spoken in continuation of some other of the Lord’s discourses; from which it appears that he has rather followed the actual order of events; Matthew to have followed his recollection. Or the words of Matthew, “Then began he to upbraid the towns,” must be taken, as some think, as expressing some particular time by the word, “then,” but not referring generally to that time in which the many other things here told were done and said.
Whoever, therefore, thinks thus must suppose that this was spoken twice. And when we find in the same Evangelist some things spoken by the Lord at two different times — like that in Luke concerning the not taking a scrip for their journey,— what wonder is it if any thing else, which was twice spoken, is found once severally in two several Gospels in the actual connexion in which it was spoken, which connexion is different, because they are two different occasions on which it is related to have been spoken?
Reproduced in full. Translation: Oxford 1841 (Newman), public domain (Public domain).
Also cites: De Cons. Ev., ii, 32