THE

LIFE AND WRITINGS

OF

ST. JOHN.

BY

JAMES M. MACDONALD, D.D.,

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY.

EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY

THE VERY REVEREND

J. S. HOWSON, D.D.

DEAN OF CHESTER.

“Ο υπέρ πάντας αγίους ηγαπημένος, και στηρίξας την από περάτων της οικουμένης Εκ-
κλησίαν, και εμφράξας τα των αιρετικών στύματα.

CHRYSOSTOM, De Pseudo-Proph., etc.

SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG & CO.,

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1877.

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1877.

PREFATORY NOTE.

No one whose attention has been turned to the fact that it

was not so much the object of our Lord's ministry to produce effects directly on the minds of the people at large, (although

these effects were, as a matter of course,

incidental and con

stantly visible,) as it was the object of that ministry to prepare

His disciples for the functions of the apostolic office, will for a moment think that too great prominence has been given to that portion of St. John's life spent under the immediate training and discipline of the Great Master and Teacher Himself.

Messrs. Scribner, Armstrong & Co. have, with the entire concurrence of the author, made an arrangement with Messrs.

Hodder and Stoughton, of London, for the publication of this