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 OFf Chester.

Ὁ ὑπὲρ πάντας ἁγίους ἠγαπημένος, ὁ στηρίξας τὴν ἀπὸ περάτων τῆς οἰκουμένης 'Εκκλησίαν, καὶ ἐμφράξας τὰ τῶν αἱρετικῶν στόματα.

CHRYSOSTOM, De Pseudo-Proph., etc.

SECOND EDITION.

London:

HODDER AND STOUGHTON,

27, PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCLXXX.

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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 constantly 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.

PRINCETON, N. J.