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A collection of five dissertations by Dr. Lightfoot, reprinted from his commentaries on the Epistles of St. Paul. The dissertations include “The Brethren of the Lord,” “St. Paul and the Three,” “The Christian Ministry,” “St. Paul and Seneca,” and “The Essenes.” Each one expounds upon an important idea in Lightfoot’s theology. In addition, “The Christian Ministry” ends with two appendices entitled...

in the one case, that they reprobated only Jewish sabbaths and new moons in the other. It was against the false principle that they waged war; the principle which exalted the means into an end, and gave an absolute intrinsic value to subordinate aids and expedients. These aids and expedients, for his own sake and for the good of the society to which he belonged, a Christian could not afford to hold lightly or neglect. But they were no part of the essence of God’s message to man in the Gospel: they
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