From Reformation to Reformation

2. Jerome thinks that they are adumbrated by the mystical four-Cherub Chariot of Ezekiel. The four living creatures were contrived by the...

1. Why would God will the Gospel history to be written by several? Various reasons for the quaternary number of Evangelists. It pleased...

Why would God will the Gospel history to be written by several? Various reasons for the quaternary number of Evangelists, 1. Jerome...

HOLY FATHERS: Anselm, Basil, Cyril of Alexandria,[1] Rupertus, Zacharias Chrysopolitanus. REFORMED: Cameron, Curio, Frizius, Gomarus,[2]...

The parts: I. The description of the person and coming of Christ: chapter 1:1-18. II. The ministry of John the Baptist: chapter 1:19-36....

8. The Parts of the Book are five. I. Description of the Person and coming of Christ (chapter 1:1-18). II. The ministry of John the...

7. The time of writing. With respect to the time of writing, that he wrote after the other Evangelists, even indeed at an old and infirm...

6. The idiom of the Book, and the sort of speech. The idiomatic expressions of Saint John. Now, he wrote his Gospel in the Greek Tongue,...

5. The argument. Therefore, Saint John, being about to compose the last of the history and sermons of Christ, covers in writing that...

4. A twofold occasion of writing is laid out, one out of Eusebius, the other out of Irenæus. Ancient writers ascribe a twofold occasion...

3. The writer of the Gospel. The Divinity of it against the Alogians asserted. That this John is the writer of this Gospel, he himself...

2. Description of the person of John: Boanerges, ἐπισήθιος, one leaning on the breast, the Theologian, Pillar of the Church. His History...

1. The inscription of the book. The Book is inscribed τὸ κατὰ Ἰωάννην Εὐαγγέλιον, the Gospel according to John. Concerning which the same...

The inscription of the book, 1. Description of the person of John: Boanerges,ἐπισήθιος, one leaning on the breast, the Theologian, Pillar...

HOLY FATHERS: Ambrose,[1] Amphilochius,[2] Anselm, Epiphanius, Gregory Nyssen, Theodoret, Bernard, Zacharias Chrysopolitanus. REFORMED:...

I. The nativity of John, the Forerunner of Christ: chapter 1. II. The nativity and infancy of Christ: chapter 2. III. Christ’s actions,...

9. There are five parts to this book. I. The nativity of John, the Forerunner of Christ (chapter 1). II. The nativity and infancy of...

8. The time of writing. To Beza and Gomarus he appears to have written before Matthew, the reasons for which are recalled to the anvil....

7. Of what sort is the diction? That Luke wrote in Greek, is doubted by no one.The style of his writing is vivid, and clear in historical...

6. The argument of the book. The history of Christ fills every page of the book, His singular conception, birth, sayings, deeds,...