Notes on Epistles of St. Paul: From Unpublished Commentaries. E-book. Formato PDF Joseph Barber Lightfoot   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The present work represents the fulfillment of the undertaking announced in the preface to 'Biblical Essays' a year and a half ago. As that volume consisted of introductory essays upon New Testament subjects, so this comprises such of Dr Lightfoot's notes on the text as in the opinion of the Trustees of the Lightfoot Fund are sufficiently complete to justify publication. However, unlike 'Biblical Essays,' of which a considerable part had already been given to the world, this volume, as its title-page indicates, consists entirely of unpublished matter. It aims at reproducing, wherever possible, the courses of lectures delivered at Cambridge by Dr Lightfoot upon those Pauline Epistles which he did not live to edit in the form of complete commentaries. His method of trusting to his memory in framing sentences in the lecture room has been alluded to already in the preface to the previous volume. But here again the Editor's difficulty has been considerably lessened by the kindness of friends who were present at the lectures and have placed their notebooks at the disposal of the Trustees.

The Christian Ministry. E-book. Formato PDF Joseph Barber Lightfoot   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

This qualification is introduced here to dep recate any misunderstanding to which the opening statement, if left without compensa tion, would fairly be exposed. It will be time to inquire hereafter in what sense the Chris tian ministry may or may not be called a priesthood. But in attempting to investigate the historical development of this divine insti tution, no better starting-point suggested itself than the characteristic distinction of Christi anity, as declared occasionally by the direct language but more frequently by the eloquent silence of the apostolic writings.

Essays on the Work Entitled Supernatural Religion: Reprinted From the Contemporary Review. E-book. Formato PDF Joseph Barber Lightfoot   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

This republication of Essays which were written several years ago has no reference to any present controversies. Its justification is the fact that strangers and friends in England and America alike had urged me from time to time to gather them together, that they might be had in a more convenient form, believing that they contained some elements of permanent value which deserved to be rescued from the past numbers of a Review not easily procurable, and thus rendered more accessible to students. I had long resisted these solicitations for MM which I shall explain presently; but a few months ago, when 1 was prostrated by sickness and my life was hanging on a slender thread, it became necessary to give a final answer to the advice tendered to me. This volume is the result. The kind offices of my chaplain the Rev. J. R. Hariner, who undertook the troublesome task of verifying the references, correcting the press, and adding the indices, when I was far too ill to attend to such matters myself, have enabled me to bring it out sooner than I had hoped.When I first took up the book entitled 'Supernatural Religion', I felt, whether rightly or wrongly, that its criticisms were too loose and pretentious, and too full of errors, to produce any permanent effect; and for the most part attacks of this hind on the records of the Divine Life are best left alone.