The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide: S. Luke's Gospel
Translated by Thomas Wimberley Mossman
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CHAPTER I.
I The preface of Luke to his whole gospel. 5 The conception of John the Baptist, 26 • and of Christ. 39 The prophecy of Elisabeth, and of Mary, conceining Christ. 57 The nativity and circumcision of John. 67 The prophecy of Zacharias, both of Christ, 76 and of John.
T^ORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,
2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eye witnesses, and ministers of the word;
3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
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- The words
- Thomas Wimberley Mossman's English translation, copied word for word.
- Left out
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 4 places
- A speck on the scan's first page, read by the OCR as “m”
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 3 places
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 2 places
- Other material that isn't the author's, in 2 places
- Printer's signature marks set by the OCR as the last line of a page's last block (“VOL. vi G”), cut as listed marks
- Closing line “END OF VOL. VI.”
- The printer's imprint
- The scanning library's spine label and call number (4 blocks)