The Four Gospels Vol 2

Author : Thomas Adam
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266983583
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book An Exposition of the Four Gospels, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas Adam and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Exposition of the Four Gospels, Vol. 2 of 2 But I hope that further consideration may shew that there is no book which exactly attains the Object I have had in View; and that that object may be held to be one of some importance. These Notes are intended for reading to households, and for the use of the middle and lower classes. They are meant to be explanatory of difficulties: simply in the sense of pointing out, in full and popular language, the ordinary and received meaning of such words and passages as persons of those classes need to have explained. The principle on which to do this - what to set down and what to omit - has been founded on ula\ny years' experience in Sun_day School teaching. What has appeared to be proper matter for question and answer, as regards explanation, in an intelligent upper class in a good Sunday School, I have thought suitable for exposition in these Notes. It is not that the Sunday Scholars, or the ordinary readers of the classes referred to, are ignorant of much that is here written; but that it may be of advantage to them in various ways to have it at hand, in plain and intelligible language. I have not aimed at direct practical teaching; but such teaching is inevitably involved to some, though not to a very great extent, in any attempt at explanation. So limited, however, I trust that such a publication may not be thought unsuitable for a layman to venture upon. It may indeed be thought that the absence both of full practical application, and of much of the deeper, wider, more mysterious and more spiritual meanings of the sacred text, leaves, in many cases, but a cold, dry, inadequate residuum. I can only reply that that larger field is unexhausted and inexhaustible; that it is for those to cultivate it whose profession and studies give them the proper authority to do so; and that simple readers will be then best fitted to benefit by that more advanced teaching, when they have a clear hold of the primary sense of the records with which it deals. 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.