“... Much more relevant is the fact that 2 Clement here agrees closely in substance with Matthew against Luke in (a) making Jesus’ statement about his confessing as a first person claim (rather than a third person reference to the ‘Son of Man’ as in Luke), and (b) having the ‘audience’ before whom Jesus will confess those who confess him as ‘my father’ (Matthew also has ‘in heaven’), rather than Luke’s ‘the angels of God’. The version in 2 Clement is thus significantly closer to Matthew’s version than to Luke’s. Further, and probably of most significance in the present context, both these differences between Matthew and Luke are almost universally taken by commentators on the synoptic tradition and/or Q to be due to MattR. [...] The version in 2 Clement thus agrees with Matthew at just those points where Matthew has redacted the tradition. It is thus most probable that 2 Clement presupposes the development of the tradition after it has gone through Matthew’s editorial hand, and hence presupposes Matthew’s finished gospel. ...”