Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. John. William Alexander

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       SECTION VII.

       NOTES.

       SECTION VIII.

       DISCOURSE X.

       BOLDNESS IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT.

       NOTES.

       SECTION IX.

       DISCOURSE XI.

       BIRTH AND VICTORY.

       DISCOURSE XII.

       THE GOSPEL AS A GOSPEL OF WITNESS; THE THREE WITNESSES.

       DISCOURSE XIII.

       THE WITNESS OF MEN (APPLIED TO THE RESURRECTION) .

       DISCOURSE XIV.

       SIN UNTO DEATH.

       DISCOURSE XV.

       THE TERRIBLE TRUISM WHICH HAS NO EXCEPTION.

       NOTES

       SECTION X.

       NOTES.

       THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN.

       II. EPISTLE.

       DISCOURSE XVI.

       THEOLOGY AND LIFE IN KYRIA'S LETTER.

       NOTES.

       THE THIRD EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN.

       III. EPISTLE.

       DISCOURSE XVII.

       THE QUIETNESS OF TRUE RELIGION.

       NOTES.

       HODDER AND STOUGHTON'S

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PART I.

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      "Johannis Epistolæ, ultimusque primæ versiculus, in Ephesum

       imprimis conveniunt."

       (Bengelin Act. xix. 21.)

      DISCOURSE I.

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THE SURROUNDINGS OF THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN.

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      "Little children, keep yourselves from idols."—i John v. 21.

      After the example of a writer of genius, preachers and essayists for the last forty years have constantly applied—or misapplied—some lines from one of the greatest of Christian poems. Dante sings of St. John—

      "As he, who looks intent,

       And strives with searching ken, how he may see

       The sun in his eclipse, and, through decline

       Of seeing, loseth power of sight: so I

       Gazed on that last resplendence."[2]

      The poet meant to be understood of the Apostle's spiritual splendour СКАЧАТЬ