The Gospel According To John Translated From The Original Greek And Illustrated By Extracts From The Theological Writings Of That Eminent Servant Of The Lord The Hon Emanuel Swedenborg Together With Notes And Observations Of The Translator Annexed To Each Chapter

Author : John Clowes
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ISBN 13 : 9781332985746
Total Pages : 480 pages
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Download or read book The Gospel According to Matthew written by John Clowes and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Gospel According to Matthew: Translated From the Original Greek, and Illustrated by Extracts From the Theological Writings of That Eminent Servant of the Lord, the Hon. Emanuel Swedenborg, Together With Notes and Observations of the Translator, Annexed to Each Chapter Matt. Xi. 22. 'f See 1 Corinth. X. 1 - 12; Galat. Iv. 22 - 31; and the Epistle to the Hebrews throughout. Here, therefore, arise the grand questions, the answers to which can alone direct to the right mode of interpreting the Sacred Scriptures, or word OF god. What is this word OF god? What are its contents? And what its essential characteristics, whereby it is distinguished from all other books? For if the word OF god, according to the senti ments of many of the learned of this day, is to be regarded merely as a history of human events, without reference to any higher sense and meaning: if its contents, too, be thus sup posed to be merely human, as they needs must be, if none but human ideas and human transactions are involved in them if the characteristics, therefore, which distinguish the bible from all other books, are not seen to be Divine characteristics, which they never can be, whilst a Divine meaning, a Divine wisdom, a Divine power, and a Divine life, are not ascribed to it: if the speech and language of the almighty be thus reduced to the level of the speech and language of His crea tures, and He who is called infinite in deed, be rendered finite in word: in this case we may safely, and even pru dently, apply merely human modes of interpretation to the holy volume, and without a charge either of folly or of impiety, may adopt the well-known maxim of a Right Reverend Prelate, and say, That, with the apostles of old, divine inspiration supplied the place of human learning, but, with the apostles of modern times, human learning supplies the place of divine inspiration. 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.