Primitive Christianity
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ISBN13: 9780217742085
Paperback|9780217742085
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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 GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER III The Passion And Resurrection. The Supplementary Chapter With chapter xiii. begins the third part of the Gospel, the fulfilment of Christ's saving love in His self-humiliation of service and suffering, and in His victorious exaltation. The story of the Passion is introduced, as in the Synoptic Gospels, by the farewell meal which Jesus takes with His disciples, and the discourses spoken at it, chapters xiii.-xvii. As his basis our Evangelist has used Luke xxii., in which, also, a longer discourse than in the other Synoptic Gospels is connected with the Lord's Supper. But in this respect John goes much further than Luke, and departs altogether from the Synoptic tradition, with the bold freedom which we have already had frequent occasion to notice. While according to the Synoptic tradition the meal was a celebration of the Paschal meal on the Passover eve, in John it is not this, but an ordinary meal on the day previous to that on which the Paschal meal was held, so that the day of Jesus' death falls on the day of the Paschal meal, and He therefore Himself appears as the anti-type of the Paschal lamb which, asPaul says in i. Cor. v. 7, has been slain for us. That this doctrinal motive was the cause of the Fourth Evangelist's departing from the Synoptic account is hardly to be doubted. And while the Synoptic tradition connects the institution of the Lord's Supper of the New Covenant with this Passover meal of Jesus, the Fourth Evangelist entirely omits this, and fills in the gap with the story of the washing of the disciples' feet, which too clearly betrays itself as an allegory translated into action, having its basis in Luke xxii. 27, for us to be able to take it as historical. The reason for this departure from the earlier unanimous tradition...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217742085 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217742084 |
| Weight | 1.11 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.76 In |
| List Price | $25.69 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 342 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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