title: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to St. John Volume 1 (International Critical Commentary Series)
author: John Henry Bernard
description: Christopher Tuckett is Professor in New Testament in the University of Oxford.
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  THE
  
  
  GREAT COMMENTARY
  
  
  of
  
  
  CORNELIUS À LAPIDE
  
  
  translated by
  
  
  THOMAS W. MOSSMAN, B.A.,
  
  
  rector of torrington, lincolnshire
  
  
  ASSISTED BY VARIOUS SCHOLARS
  
  
  כִּי־קִנְאַת בֵיתְךָ אֲכָלָת֑נ֪י
  
  
  s. john’s gospel.—chaps. 1 to 11
  
  
  third edition
  
  
  EDINBURGH: JOHN GRANT
  
  
  31 george iv. bridge
  
  
  1908
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Notice to the Reader
  
  
  AS it has been found impossible to compress the Translation of the Commentary
  upon S. John’s Gospel into one volume, it is now given in two, of which this
  is the first. The second volume comprises the remainder of the Gospel, and the
  Commentary of À Lapide upon S. John’s Epistles.
  
  
  It is with great pleasure I present this portion of this great Commentary to
  the English reader. Admirable as Cornelius à Lapide almost invariably is in
  his exposition of Holy Scripture, on the Gospel of S. John he seems to me to
  surpass himself. Beginning from the Incarnation of the Divine Word, nothing
  can be more masterly, nothing more magnificent, than the w