An Exposition of the Gospel of St. John
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Excerpt from An Exposition of the Gospel of St. John: Consisting of an Analysis of Each Chapter, and of a Commentary, Critical, Exegetical, Doctrinal, and Moral, Having the Text, English and Latin, Prefixed in Full to Each Chapter As the General Introduction prefixed to the first edition of our Commentary on the Gospel of St. Matthew was meant for the three other Gospels also, which we contemplated expounding in course of time, we shall not trespass on the patience of the reader by travelling over the same ground once more. But as one portion of that Introduction is peculiarly suited to the circumstances of the present time, we may be allowed to reproduce it, and prefix it to this our Commentary on the Gospel of St. John: - "In addition to the foregoing reasons, the character of the age on which we have fallen, considerably influenced me in publishing a Commentary on the Gospels at the present time. Was it ever more necessary, at any period in the history of Christianity, than it is at this day, to place before the world, in as clear a light as possible, an exposition in accordance with the unerring teachings of the Catholic Church, of the fundamental principles of faith and morals, with which the Son of God came down to enlighten a world He found sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death? Does the condition into which many parts of the world are at this moment relapsing, promise to be an improvement on that state of Paganism in which He found it when He came to proclaim glory to God and peace to men? Has not His spouse and representative, the Catholic Church, with whom He deposited the fulness of truth, and to whom He bequeathed the plenitude of His authority, as fierce a struggle before her, enemies as embittered to encounter, as she had when she was forced to seek shelter for a time in the bowels of the earth, and the Flavian Amphitheatre re-echoed to the savage yells of, ´Christianas ad leones?´ Are the principles of Atheism, Materialism, total negation of all future sanction, which even the very fables of Paganism dimly shadowed forth, less deadly or noxious in their consequences, both as regards here and hereafter, than the principles of Polytheism she succeeded in extirpating? As regards public authority, was the all-absorbing power of Pagan rulers more crushing that the iron-despotism which men would now fain establish in the most powerful kingdoms under the specious name of Liberty? Liberty - that name, like religion itself, so often injuriously invoked, as if it could be ever found dissociated from the holy influences of God´s Spirit, for, ´Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there (and there only) is liberty´ (2 Cor. iii. 17). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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