Excerpt from The Gospel According to St. John: Chapters I. To VIII MY two texts both refer to John the Baptist. One of them is the Evangelist's account Of him, the other is our Lord's eulogium upon him. The latter of my texts, as the Revised Version Shows, would be more properly rendered, He was a lamp rather than He was a light, ' and the contrast between the two words, the 'light' and 'the lamps, ' is my theme. I gather all that I would desire to say into three points: that Light' and its witnesses; the underived Light and the kindled lamps the undying Light and the lamps that go out. I. First of all, then, the contrast suggested to us is between that Light and its witnesses. 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.