ANNOTATIONIS SACRE, BEING A CRITICAL DIGEST AND SYNOPTICAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ANNOTATIONS ON THE NEW TESTAMENT, CAREFULLY COLLECTED AND CONDENSED, FROM THE BEST COMMENTATORS, AND SO DIGESTED AS TO FORM ONE CONSISTENT BODY OF ANNOTATION, In which Each Portion is systematically attributed to its respective Author, AND THE FOREIGN MATTER TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH; The whole accompanied with A COPIOUS BODY OF ORIGINAL ANNOTATIONS. BY THE REV. S. T. BLOOMFIELD, M. A. OF SIDNEY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, VICAR OF BISBROOKE IN RUTLAND, AND CURATE Οὐ σοφισταὶ ἥκομεν, οὐδὲ ἀπιστεῖν ἕτοιμοι, θεαταὶ δε μόνον τῶν Philostr. Jun. Icon. 1. 24. ̓Αλλὰ τῶν θείων τὰ πολλὰ ἀπιστίῃ διαφυγγάνει μὴ γινώσκεσθαι. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, 62, ST PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD; 3, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL; AND 148, STRAND. INTRODUCTION TO THE GOSPEL OF SAINT JOHN. Translated from the Latin of Dr. Tittman, Superintendant of the Diocese of Dresden. AMONG all the books of the Old and New Testament, this most divine and venerable work, the Gospel of St. John, holds unquestionably the highest place, both on account of the importance of the subjects therein discussed, and the fundamental doctrines from thence clearly to be understood, and satisfactorily demonstrated. In no other sacred book has our Lord so frequently and entirely laid open his very heart, that heart most holy and animated with the Divine Spirit, filled with piety towards God the Father, reverence for religion, animated with a love to the human race almost inconceivable, ardently zealous for the glory of God, fraught with truth, and adorned with every virtue; studious of the common good, negligent of his own, pursuing alone divine and eternal objects, contemning perils, nay even death itself, and alone anxious to rescue men from perdition, and place them in a state of felicity the exalted nature of which it hath not entered into the heart of man to conceive. Not without reason, then, have the pious and learned of all ages so highly valued this book, called by the great Ernesti the Pectus Christi, and by the ancient Fathers (see Euseb. H. Eccles. 6, 14.) "The Spiritual Volume;" so exuberant is it in matter the most important and momentous, breathing the very soul of Christ, and imparting the true sense of the Christian religion. Well has it been observed by Chrysostom (T. 8. p. 11), that therein we especially find i VOL. III. b |