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We all know the story about how Our Redeemer was sold for thirty pieces of silver:
Now, some of you may have wondered, why The Holy Ghost (through Matthew) claims that the prophecy was spoken by Jeremy, when in reality it was Zechariah.
Augustine (354-430) gave much consideration to this problem in his Harmony of the Gospels and his conclusion was that since all prophets are moved by the same Holy Ghost, there's really no reason to distinguish between them. A Jew is a Jew is a Jew:
Way to go, Augustine.
All the Shylocks and Schlomos (who are burning in Hell as we speak) were nothing but meat puppets operated by The Holy Ghost. If the Holy Ghost doesn't bother to learn their names - then why should we? 
Augustine makes another shrewd observation:
Let that be a lesson to every doubting Thomas: It doesn't matter whether the prophecy was spoken by Zechariah or Jeremiah - or whether half of the prophecy was never spoken at all. We know that the prophecy was fulfilled, because Matthew says so, and Matthew is inspired by God Himself. Alleluia!
That, my brethren & sistren, is faith.
We all know the story about how Our Redeemer was sold for thirty pieces of silver:
Matthew 27:9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;
Matthew 27:10 And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.
Matthew 27:10 And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.
Now, some of you may have wondered, why The Holy Ghost (through Matthew) claims that the prophecy was spoken by Jeremy, when in reality it was Zechariah.
Zechariah 11:12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
Zechariah 11:13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
Zechariah 11:13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
Augustine (354-430) gave much consideration to this problem in his Harmony of the Gospels and his conclusion was that since all prophets are moved by the same Holy Ghost, there's really no reason to distinguish between them. A Jew is a Jew is a Jew:
"The same consideration might also fitly suggest the duty of accepting unhesitatingly whatever the Holy Spirit has given expression to through the agency of these prophets, and of looking upon their individual communications as also those of the whole body, and on their collective communications as also those of each separately. If, then, it is the case that words spoken by Jeremiah are really as much Zechariah's as Jeremiah's, and, on the other hand, that words spoken by Zechariah are really as much Jeremiah's as they are Zechariah's, what necessity was there for Matthew to correct his text when he read over what he had written, and found that the one name had occurred to him instead of the other?" (Augustine, Harmony of the Gospels III 17, ca. 400 AD)
Way to go, Augustine.
All the Shylocks and Schlomos (who are burning in Hell as we speak) were nothing but meat puppets operated by The Holy Ghost. If the Holy Ghost doesn't bother to learn their names - then why should we? Augustine makes another shrewd observation:
"For [it is also to be remarked that] Matthew makes the following addition to the passage cited, namely, "Whom the children of Israel did value; and gave them the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me." Now, these words are not to be found either in Zechariah or in Jeremiah. Hence we must rather take them to have been inserted with a nice and mystical meaning by the evangelist, on his own responsibility,- the Lord having given him to understand, by revelation, that a prophecy of the said tenor had a real reference to this occurrence, which took place in connection with the price set upon Christ." (Augustine, Harmony of the Gospels III 17, ca. 400)
Let that be a lesson to every doubting Thomas: It doesn't matter whether the prophecy was spoken by Zechariah or Jeremiah - or whether half of the prophecy was never spoken at all. We know that the prophecy was fulfilled, because Matthew says so, and Matthew is inspired by God Himself. Alleluia!
That, my brethren & sistren, is faith.
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