Author: Arthur Ritchie

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9781527647039

Excerpt from Spiritual Studies in St. Mark's Gospel, Vol. 1 Isaac Williams says Now commences the general account of our Lord's public ministry; but St. Matthew and St. Mark introduce it with no reference to the incidents mentioned by St. Luke, or to the previous circumstances in St. John; but merely of our Lord thus preaching after St. John was cast into prison. Very striking and awful are these frequent allusions to times and seasons in the Gospels, M y time is not yet come, and the time is fulfilled, new is the accepted time. For thus to the Church at large, to every Church, to every individual, there is a time, the appointed day, after which the door w shut, the things belonging to their peace are hidden; the night cometh. Swete comments as follows: 'both proclama tions, that of St. John Baptist, and that of our Lord, urged repentance, and both told of good tidings, but repentance predominated m the one. 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.