Short Notes on St. John's Gospel (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the Son, since in the Scriptural view faith and obedience cannot be separated) upon him the wrath of God?not the punishment?abideth for ever. The wrath of God is said to abide for ever on those who disobey Christ, because so long as the disobedience continues, the wrath continues: if the disobedience to the end, the wrath likewise to the end; the disobedience removed, then is the wrath likewise removed. Chap. IV. 1?3. Our Lord knew that the intelligence had reached the ears of the Pharisees that " all men come to Him," (ch. iii. 26, ) and saw the first beginnings of their jealousy of Him. This caused Him to withdraw into Galilee, as His hour was not yet come. The Pharisees did not entertain the same jealousy of the Baptist as they did of Christ. The reason why our Lord did not baptize, but His disciples, was, no doubt, because the act, as a ministerial one, was becoming to the apostles and not the Master Himself; whereas St. John the Baptist, with his own hand, and not his disciples, baptized. This baptism by the disciples of Christ was regarded by many in the early Church as resembling John's, in being a preparative one. The Spirit was not yet given; the command (St. Matt. xxviii. 19) was not yet issued. It differed from John's in being a baptism into the faith of One already come, and entered on His office. 4, 5. The direct road was through Samaria. The scrupulous Jews avoided passing through that country by making a circuit by way of Persea. Our Lord would not give countenance to the hatred which existed between Jews and Samaritans; (see St. Luke ix. 52). Sychar is the same town as Shechem, Gen. xxxiii. 18; Joshua xx. 7; Judges ix. 7, (called Sychem in the Septuagint; cf. Acts vii. 16). In aftertimes it was called Neapolis, in modern times Nablus. Sychar is a corrupti...