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The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide, Volume 6: S. John’s Gospel—Chaps. 12 to 21 and Epistles 1, 2, and 3 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Volume 6 of The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide provides verse-by-verse commentary on the Gospel According to John, chapters 12–21, and the Epistles of John. In the introduction to the Epistles of John, à Lapide examines the authorship, authority, and intentions of the epistles.

And after all, what connection has this with the reason given, “I have not yet ascended to My Father”? (4.) [Pseudo]-Justin (Quæst, a Gentibus, propos. xlvii.), and after him Toletus and others, explain it thus: Touch Me not: for I am shortly about to ascend to heaven, and I wish to withdraw you gradually from My accustomed presence. Therefore, says [Pseudo]-Justin, “He did not constantly show Himself to His disciples after His Resurrection, nor yet withdraw Himself entirely from their sight, so
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