A Critical And Exegetical Commentary On The Gospel According To St Luke Classic Reprint

Author : F. Godet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331596097
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book A Commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke (Classic Reprint) written by F. Godet and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Commentary on the Gospel of St. Luke The immediate occasion for the issue of a separate commentary on Luke's Gospel is found in the fact that from it are taken the Sabbath-school lessons of the International uniform series for the former half of the year on which we are so soon to enter. When it is remembered how many millions of pupils receive instruction according to this widely-accepted arrangement, it will not seem unimportant that hundreds of thousands of teachers - many of them busily engaged in ordinary life - should have all possible aid in the work of preparing themselves a teach. Who does not crave a blessing on them in their self-denying work? Let us ask that He whose word they employ as the educating spiritual power, will make this work one of the forms in which the blessing will come to them. But it is not only such Christian laborers who are now interested in securing aid to a full Understanding of Luke's Gospel. It is a matter for true rejoicing that, as the school of the Sabbath is in closest connection with the Church, and doing a part of the Church's work, ministers labor in so many forms to increase the power of their fellow-toilers by printed and oral exposition of the lessons, and in many instances by systematic treatment of the coming Sabbath-school lesson at the week-day service. This is done in many cases where ministers are far removed from libraries and from the stimulus of literary fellowship, and where also the means at their disposal make it difficult for them to procure expensive theological or exegetical works. To bring such within their easier reach is not unworthy of effort: their power for good as religious educators is thus increased in this and in every other department of their difficult but beneficent labors. At first sight it might seem as if the commentary of M. Godet were too voluminous, and too comprehensive in its plan to be of use to Sabbath-school teachers. But there are considerations to be taken into account on the other side, (a) No one unacquainted practically with this great agency of our time has any idea of the immense advance in biblical knowledge made during the past decade, in which uniform of topic enabled publishing houses and societies to provide the best help for teachers. (b) To keep a high standard of attainment and effort before this great body of laborers is desirable in itself. That all do not reach the ideal qualification is no reason for withdrawing the means toward it which a certain proportion can and will employ.(c) The ideas of Paulus, Strauss, Renan and other authors of similar tendency are being diffused, and are presented with more or less show of learning, and especiality of "culture" and "enlightenment," by many who do not have them from the originals, and to many who never come in contact with the works as a whole, but only in the unqualified eulogies which accompany their names when they are teny used against evangelical interpretation. It is desirable in the highest degree that intelligent Christians who are teachers of others should know of an "antidote" to the "bane" of what Godet concisely calls "criticism" throughout his work. This consideration will reconcile any intelligent reader who has learned to identify himself with the cause of the truth to many portions of this commentary devoted to the exposure of the shallow, arbitrary, inconflistent, and arrogant way in which Rationalism deals with Scripture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com