Excerpt from Father John of the Greek Church: An Appreciation With Some Characteristic Passages of His Mystical and Spiritual Autobiography Father john, as he is affectionately called, is the great living pillar, and the far-shining ornament of the Greek Church of our day. And the Greek Church is the most ancient and the most venerable of all the Churches of Christendom. The Greek Church stretches away back in a direct and an unbroken line to the days of our Lord and His apostles. The New Testament from Matthew to Revelation was all written in Greek. And the Old Testament itself has now for more than two thousand years been far more widely read in its Septuagint Greek than even in its original Hebrew. The great Ecumenical Councils also all sat in Greek cities, and carried on their great debates in the Greek tongue. In no other tongue, indeed, could they have carried on their. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.