{Gospel Circles (3) [continued (3)] (b) Matthew [continued]}[9th September 1989]

[Redbook6:229-230][19890909:1148c]{Gospel Circles (3) [continued (3)] (b) Matthew [continued]}[9th September 1989]

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It can be seen* that Matthew’s Gospel is distorted from the original pattern: use of the 7 sections, which apparently are found in the Greek Gospel, is neater:

[The ms diagram reproduced above is too complex to justify extraction of text into a table at present]

(There is a strong contra-rotation: both halves are left and right, inner and outer.)

The arrangement in Matthew, therefore, looks more formally contrived to fit a simple outer circle with some inner circle resonances: in accordance with the repeated pattern of 7 found throughout.

*ref above [last previous entry](?))

[Words up to semi-colon repeated from last previous entry, ts only]

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