The Biblical Illustrator

Download or read book The Biblical Illustrator written by Joseph Samuel Exell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Biblical Illustrator: Or Anecdotes, Similes, Emblems, Illustrations; Expository, Scientific, Geographical, Historical, and Homiletic, Gathered From a Wide Range of Home and Foreign Literature, on the Verses of the Bible The title Grammy - It may be well to say a word as to the meaning of the epithet General or Catholic, which, since the fourth century, has been given to this Epistle, as well as to 2 Peter, James, 1, 2, 3 John, and Jude. This is not a question Of vital importance (for the appellation has no claim to Divine authority), and it is well it is so, for there seems no means of determining it with anything like cer tainty. The term appears originally to have meant an Epistle directed not to one Church, but to all, or at any rate to many Churches - a description which belongs to five of the seven Epistles so distinguished; the other two being addressed to individuals. In the time of Eusebius, with this sense seems to have been connected the somewhat cognate one of epistles publicly read in many or all the Churches, on account of the excellence and usefulness of their contents; and, till the writings of the New Testament were collected into one volume, it appears to have been the technical name by which this collection of Epistles was distinguished from the Pauline Epistles. (j. Brown, D.D.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.