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The Messages of the Books: Being Discourses and Notes on the Books of the New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

“My desire,” says F. W. Farrar in the preface, is “to point out the general form, the peculiar characteristics, the special message of the Sacred Books one by one, because I had found by experience, both as a teacher and as a clergyman, that this method of studying each part of Scripture as a complete whole was much less common than could be desired.” In The Messages of the Books, Farrar sets out...

Christianity. It might be asked what remains? One infinite thing remains, Eternity; the wants of the spiritual reason. St. John drops the great keystone into the soaring arch of Christian revelation, when he represents Christ, neither as Messiah only, nor King only, nor even as Saviour only, but as the Incarnate Word; as Christ, the Life and Light of men, the pre-existent and Eternal Son of God; not only as the Son of Man who ascended into heaven, but as the Son of God, who descended from heaven
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