abbreviations and appendices
It happened when the Lord ascended from the water, that the whole
fountain of the Holy Spirit descended and rested upon him and said to him:
My son, I expected you among all the prophets that you should come and
that I should rest upon you. For you are my rest, you are my first-born son
who shall reign in eternity.(Jerome,Comm. Isa. .–).
.b. [In the Gospel according to the Hebrews which was written in
the Chaldaic and Syriac language but with Hebrew letters, and is used
up to the present day by the Nazarenes, I mean that according to the
Apostles, or, as many maintain, according to Matthew, which Gospel is
also available in the Library of Caesarea, the story runs:]
See, the mother of the Lord and his brothers said him: John the Baptist
baptizes for the remission of the sins, let us go to be baptized by him. He
said to them, however: What sin have I committed that I should go and
be baptized by him? Unless perhaps something which I said is ignorance.
(Jerome,Pelag. .; trans. Klijn , modified).
. The Holy Spirit takes Jesus to Tabor
[If somebody accepts the Gospel according to the Hebrews, where the
Saviour himself says:]
A moment ago my Mother, the Holy Spirit, took me by one of my hairs and
broughtmetothegreathill,theTabor.(Origen,Comm. Jo. .,Hom. Jer.
.; Jerome,Comm. Mich..–,Comm. Isa. .–,Comm. Ezech.
.).
. Matthias and Levi are the same
It seems that Matthew is named Levi in the Gospel according to Luke.
But they are not the same, but Matthias who replaced Judas and Levi are
thesamewithadoublename.ThisappearsfromtheGospelaccordingto
the Hebrews. (Didymus,Comm. Ps. ed. M. Groenewald p. ,–).
. Jesus chooses the good ones
[Then he taught about the divisions of the souls which will come about
in the houses, as we have found somewhere in the Gospel which exists
among the Jews in the Hebrew language, in which it is said:]
I choose for myself the good ones, the good ones whom my Father in heaven
has given to me.(Eusebius,Theoph. Syr. .).