The General Epistles Of Ss James Peter John And Jude PDF Download

Excerpt from The General Epistles of Ss, James, Peter, John, and Jude: With Notes Critical and Practical There is much difficulty in ascertaining who the holy man was who wrote this Epistle. Three persons bearing the name of James (Jacobus, one of the most common of Jewish names, ) occupied prominent positions in the earliest times of the Church. One, the son of Zebedee, was martyred by Herod("He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword," Acts xii. 2). No one, however, competent to speak on the subject, has ever ascribed this Epistle to him. The second is described in the four lists of the Apostles as the son of Alphaeus. He was one of the original twelve, and never during the time covered by the New Testament narrative is said to have been an unbeliever. The third is the James, the Lords brother of Gal. i. 19, who was certainly the Bishop or President of the Church of Jerusalem, to whom St. Paul, on his return from his third journey, "went in, and all the elders," it is said, were present. That he was the superintendent or Bishop of the Church at Jerusalem is also evident from this, that he presided at the meeting or council in which it was ruled that the Gentiles should not be called upon to submit to the Jewish law. Now the question arises, did these two names - James the son of Alphaeus, and James the brother of the Lord - belong to the same person? Many think that they did; among them the late Dean of Rochester in the "Speaker's Bible," the late Bishop Wordsworth, Mr. Blunt, and others. 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."