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An Exposition of the Epistles of St. Paul and of the Catholic Epistles, Volume 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

John MacEvilly’s exposition of the Pauline and Catholic Epistles offers a clear, Catholic, passage-by-passage interpretation of the text. It combines traditional exegesis with moral exhortation and so has been widely used as a daily devotional. The work was originally intended for laymen, but quickly found a place as a textbook in seminary education and has seen numerous editions.

9. The greatest proof of his boundless charity for man, that “God who is charity” (verse 8), has given us, is, “his having sent his only begotten Son into the world.” It is thought by many interpreters, that the Apostle here gives Christ the title of “Only Begotten Son,” in refutation of the errors of Ebion and Cerinthus, who held that Christ was not the natural, but, like other good men, the adoptive Son of God. “That we may live by him”—we who before were dead in sin, and liable to eternal death,
1 John 4:9
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