The message of the Bible is too important to be locked up in erudite and esoteric essays and monographs written for the eyes of theological specialists.
This book is a commentary on the Gospel of Matthew. But this book is not a life a Jesus. Its primary and essential task is to help the reader of the Gospel to enter into its author's faith of all what thought Jesus did and said, and what he thought this meant for the church.
The book is a primer. It does not seek to make a contribution to the knowledge of those who are already scholars of New Testament textual criticism.
There are many signs today of a renewed intersest in what the Bible has to say and of a more general desire to understand its meaning as fully and clearly as possible.
There is in the new book more Greek than in the old, because (to put the matter in a nutshell) there is no'Sandayy and Headlam' for 1 Corinthians, and the student, being less well served , needs more help ; but again it will be easily possible for those who know no Greek to skip every word of it.
The virtues of the Authorized Version of the Bible, which appeared in 1611 , are well known. It is unfortunate that most o it is no longer intelligible, even to churhgoeres.
The book has been put together, over a period of seven or eight years, in the scattered leisure of a schoolmaster's life.
There are various explanations of the term catholic as applied to this group of seven short letters by four writers.
There are various explanations of the term catholic as applied to this group of seven short letters by four writers.
There are various explanations of the term catholic as applied to this group of seven short letters by four writers.