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The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide, Volume 5: S. John’s Gospel—Chaps. 1 to 11 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Volume 5 of The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide provides verse-by-verse commentary on the Gospel According to John, chapters 1–11. Lapide provides an in-depth introduction to the life and Gospel of John, and also discusses the contributions to the study of John’s Gospel from numerous Church Fathers, such as S. Jerome, Baronius, S. Cyril, S. Augustine, S. John Chrysostom, S. Euthymius, and...

Ver. 31.—Now we know, &c. How can this be? For if sinners penitently ask pardon God vouchsafes it, and frequently bestows on sinners temporal blessings, and spiritual blessings also, if they ask for them. But I reply (1.) God ordinarily does not hear sinners; sinners, I mean, persisting in their sin. Yet sometimes, though rarely, He hears even them. So Jansen. This is plain from Scripture (see Ps. 59:1, 2; Prov. 28:9; Ps. 50:16; Mal. 2:2). But of the just it is said, “The eyes of the Lord are over
John 9:31
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