The Preaching of the Cross, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Preaching of the Cross, Vol. 1 The present volume enters on the history of a most important period of the Life of our Lord, a period the charcteristics of which are in many respects novel. At the end of the last volume we had reached the central and turning point of the Public Life, in the Confession of our Lord's Divinity made by St. Peter, and in the promises made to the great Apostle in return for that Confession. Each of the three historical Evangelists notices that from that time our Lord began to speak openly to the Apostles about His coming Passion, as well as to preach to the people the doctrine of the Cross. But St. Matthew and St. Mark do not tell us very much of the events which occurred between the time of the Confession of St. Peter and the last journey of our Lord to Jerusalem before Palm Sunday. They give few incidents in Galilee, and the very important heads of doctrine which were delivered while He was in Peraea. The reason for this silence of the earlier Evangelists has often been stated. 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."