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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.

the glorious laurels of martyrdom, as appears from the record of their acts in Surius. Moreover, faithful and pious souls pass from this world in one way—those without faith in another. For, as S. Augustine says (Tract 55), “It is one thing to pass from the world, another to pass with it; one thing to pass to a Father, another thing to a foe. For the Egyptians too passed over … yet did they not pass through the sea to the kingdom, but to destruction in the sea.” Having loved His own (the faithful
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