Lanterna Rally

Author: David Gregg

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-21

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780483529953

Excerpt from Studies in John's Gospel: The Gospel of Christ's Deity Like the first book of the Old Testament, this last Gospel of the New Testament begins with a preface. The two introductions are marvellously alike. They both make God the frontispiece of the book. Both books narrate the works of God. In Genesis God works as Creator; in this last Gos pel God works as Redeemer. The preface of a book prepares the reader for the perusal of the book. This is especially true of the preface to the Gospel according to John. It outlines the book and strikes its keynote. Like the entire Gospel, it is distinctively Johannean; just as the writings 'of Paul are distinctively Paul ine. It is full of deep and grand things, such as the intuitive and contemplative nature of the apos tle of love would both grasp and enjoy. While the truths and facts narrated are deep, the expres sion of these is simple and crystalline and beauti ful. There is no mistaking what the writer says. The difficulty is to make the clearly stated truths and facts living realities in the soul. John's wri tings are like those deep goblet-lakes Which the mountains hold up to the gaze of the world six and eight thousand feet in the air. The waters in these lakes are as clear as dewdrops, but it takes a long line to fathom their depths. No mental' plummet has ever touched the bottom of the living waters of truth in this Johannean lake. 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.