Recensio Synoptica Annotationis Sacræ, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from Recensio Synoptica Annotationis Sacræ, Vol. 3: Being a Critical Digest and Synoptical Arrangement of the Most Important Annotations on the New Testament, Exegetical, Philological, and Doctrinal, Carefully Collected and Condensed, From the Best Commentators, Both Ancient and ModernTranslated from the Latin of Dr. Tittman, Superintendant of the, Diocese of Dresden.Among all the books of the Old and New Testa ment, this most divine and venerable work, the Gospel of' St. John, holds unquestionably the highest place, both on account of the impontance of the sub jects therein discussed, and the fundamental doc trines from thence clearly to be under, stood and satisfactorily demonst1ated. In no other sae1ed book has our Lord so frequently and entirely laid open his very heart, that heart most holy and ani mated with the Divine Spirit. Filled with piety towalds God the Father, 1eve1ence for religion, animated with a love to the human race almost 111 conceivable, ardently zealous for the glory of'god, fraught with truth, and adorned with every Virtue, studious ofthe common good, negligent of his own, pu1suino~ alone divine and ete1nal objects, contemning pe1ils, nay even death itself, and alone anxious to rescue men fiom peldition, and place them m a state of felicity the exalted natu1e of which it hath not entered into the heart otman to conceive. Not with out reason, then, have the pious and learned of all ages so highly valued this book, called by the great Ernesti the Pectus Christi, and by the ancient Fathers (see Euseb. H. Eccles. 6, The Spiritual I olume, so exuberant is it in matter the most im po1tant and momentous, breathing the very soul (f Christ, and impa1ting the t1ue sense of the Christian 1eligion. Well has it been observed by Chrysostom (t. 8. P. That the1ei11 we especially find soxw.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.