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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:
gospel; that of Luke, the humanitarian gospel; that of John the
spiritual gospel. Or it might be put thus: Matthew records the
sayings of Jesus; Mark, His mighty acts;. Luke reveals His human
heart; John, the secrets of His divine nature. But all of these
classifications are necessarily imperfect. Each evangelist was to
some extent an independent witness; yet the four separate gospels
unite together in forming one stream of historic testimony in
behalf of the manifestation of God in human life, which has made
glad the waste places of the earth, and has made the wilderness to
blossom as the rose. chapter{Section 4THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO
MATTHEW THE WRITER The man with whose name the first gospel is
connected was a collector of customs from merchants crossing the
Sea of Galilee. The name given to him by Mark and Luke is Levi. He
calls himself by his Christian name "Matthew," but with a touch of
humility adds, "the publican," in reference to the unsavory
profession which he had abandoned. He was the son of Alphaeus (Mark
ii. 14); probably not the Alphaeus mentioned as the father of
James, and a member of the apostolic band (Matt. x. 3; Mark iii.
18). His duties as a publican would bring him into disrepute with
his countrymen, who hated all agents of the foreign despotism under
which they groaned. The social ostracism from which men of this
class usually suffered may have produced, or may have fostered,
that rapacity and avarice for which publicans were noted. It was an
audacious act to choose a follower from this class. But Jesus,who
had probablyoften marked the man Levi at his post, called him one
day to follow Him, and he obeyed. The beginning of the new career
was celebrated by the assumption or bestowal of the new name,
"Matthew," which signifies "the gift of God," and b...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e
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