“The miracles of our Lord are not miracles only. They are most frequently acted parables also.””
Quotes by J. B. Lightfoot
“Gnosticism tried to establish, or rather preserve, an intellectual oligarchy in religion. It had its hidden wisdom, its exclusive mysteries, its privileged class.””
“The aristocracy of intellectual discernment which Gnosticism upheld in religion is abhorrent to the first principles of the Gospel.””
“The apostolic doctrine of the Logos teaches us to regard the eternal Word as having the same relation to the universe which the incarnate Christ holds to the church. He is the source of its life, the center of all its developments, the mainspring of all its motions.””
J. B. LightfootJ.B. Lightfoot was a prominent English theologian and biblical scholar, best known for his work on the New Testament and early Christianity. Born in 1828, he became a leading figure in the Anglican Ch...