The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide, Volume 1: S. Matthew’s Gospel

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Volume 1 of The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide provides verse-by-verse commentary on the Gospel According to Matthew, chapters 1–9. In the general preface à Lapide addresses: • The excellence and majesty of the Gospels. • The number, order, agreement, and discrepancies of the Gospels. • The different versions of the Gospels. • The title prefixed to Saint Matthew’s Gospel. •...

Psalter, ‘Thy word, O Lord, is a light unto my feet, and a lantern unto my paths.’ ” This is why there has ever been, not only by the Saints but by all Christians, wonderful reverence paid to the Gospel, wonderful love, wonderful veneration. Constantine the Great sent a book of the Gospels, adorned with gold and precious stones, to S. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra. The Emperor Theodosius wrote the Gospels with his own hand, and was wont to read them a good part of the night. The Œcumenical Councils of

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