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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ... Cor. xi. that Eucharistic feasts were common in all Christian Churches. No doubt the history of the rite and the rite itself were both well known and understood. And we may imagine that a thorough reform St. John xiii. of the Agapae would follow upon St. Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians. But if the practice of the Church generally was in this respect in a satisfactory condition, St. John naturally would not think it necessary to refer to the subject further. At the same time we can hardly help inferring that he did not assign to it that cardinal and almost exclusive importance which some are found to claim for it in the present day. Otherwise he would not have shrunk from repetition, as we see from his minute treatment of the events of the Passion. The Evangelist relates, however, an episode which is necessary to keep up the thread of the narrative--the discovery and exit of the traitor. And he does this with singular vividness and exactness, as the synopsis of the four Gospels is enough to show. The fourth Gospel is the fullest, the most minute, the most lifelike, the most intelligible. It tells us that Jesus was troubled in making the announcement. 'Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom He spake.' And the passage that follows has a precision which is imperfectly preserved in the English version. This has been well brought out by Professor Lightfoot in his recent work on Revision1. St. John was reclining on the bosom of his Master, and he suddenly threw back his head upon His breast to ask a question. The change of posture is emphasized and illustrated by a change in each of the words, verb, preposition, noun; a.ya.Kti)t.voi--dvaireirair, iv--em, Kots(o--orfjflos. The exactness of this is wonderful. And the mode in which the announce...

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