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Enter the world of John the Baptist through the three main roles which he embodied: baptist, forerunner, and martyr. John paved the way for Jesus, baptized him, and eventually, died for his belief that Jesus was the long-awaited Messiah. John’s whole life was wrapped up in Christ, and J. Elder Cumming’s volume captures this reality in its explanation of each event in John’s life—following the...

of the past; if so, it means the dove. If the word John be a distinct and separate word, it was a name unknown to the Jews, and is supposed to signify the gift of Jehovah. Already there seems to be in the name itself an indication that he belongs neither to the past nor the future, but is a solitary link between the two. The closing portion of this wonderful first chapter of St. Luke contains the inspired song of Elizabeth and the prophetic song of Zacharias.
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