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The most organic of the Gospels, John provides a towering literary importance in the New Testament, one in which The Lutheran Commentary aims to draw attention to. Adolph Spaeth sets forth his commentary on the Gospel of John as one continuous argument—evidenced by his style and language—based on homiletic exposition rather than hermeneutic.

person. Now for His testimony concerning His work. It is all told in the simple story of the brazen serpent. This was, no doubt, one of the most memorable of all the experiences during Israel’s journey through the wilderness. Yea, the grateful remembrance of it, which they carried into the promised land, became a snare to the Israelites, who burned incense to it under the name Nehushtan, so that Hezekiah, in his work of reformation, had to break it in pieces (2 Kings 18:4). Was there a divination
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