Exposition of the Gospel of St. John, Volume 1 (Biblia.com)

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In volume one, Robert Govett expounds on the inherent purpose of the Gospel of John in context to the collective Synoptic Gospels. Seeking to clarify the historical context around when John’s Gospel was scribed, Robert Govett examines the impacts of Gnosticism and Judaism on the church. Volume one covers chapters one through ten in the text.

The receivers of this name of God, and of Christ Jesus as the Son of God, become, in virtue of this faith wrought by the Holy Ghost, ‘sons of God.’ Christ was the Son of God before the world was—these begin to be sons of God long since the creation. There were errorists then (and there will be again) who affirmed, that the reception or rejection of the Gospel turned upon some original difference of nature, found in the flesh at birth. This the Spirit of God here denies. There is no peculiar readiness

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