Tomorrow is St. Matthew’s day, and one has to rejoice in the delicious sarcasm of my former professor, Dr. David P. Scaer:
Out of deference to critical scholarship, but without accepting all its conclusions, we are compelled to identify two “Matthews”: one, the disciple of Jesus, the apostle; and the other, the evangelist, who they say wrote the gospel forty years later. The second “Matthew” did such a good job in impersonating the first “Matthew,” that no one back then could tell the difference. But, as is customary with scholars, they know more than those closest to the situation.
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