J.B. Lightfoot > Quotes

“The miracles of our Lord are not miracles only. They are most frequently acted parables also.”
― J. B. Lightfoot, Sermons

“The OT was divided into three section by the Jews: The Torah (The Law of Books of Moses), the Nevi’im (or the Prophets) and the Ketuvim (or writings).”
― J.B. Lightfoot, The Shepherd of Hermas

“Arcadia”
― J.B. Lightfoot, The Shepherd of Hermas

“The true mediator must be both human and divine.”
― J.B. Lightfoot, Colossians and Philemon

“It is the very compression of the thoughts which creates the difficulty.”
― J.B. Lightfoot, Colossians and Philemon

“Gnosticism tried to establish, or rather preserve, an intellectual oligarchy in religion. It had its hidden wisdom, its exclusive mysteries, its privileged class.”
― J.B. Lightfoot, Colossians and Philemon

“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. Lightfoot, Colossians and Philemon

“The aristocracy of intellectual discernment which Gnosticism upheld in religion is abhorrent to the first principles of the Gospel.”
― J.B. Lightfoot, Colossians and Philemon

“the Shepherd of Hermas. A book, which, like the OT Apocrypha was accepted by some (mainly Roman Christians)”
― J.B. Lightfoot, The Shepherd of Hermas

“The fifth Vision is different in kind from the preceding four, and indeed is designated, not a Vision (ὅρασις), but a Revelation (ἀποκάλυψις).”
― J.B. Lightfoot, The Shepherd of Hermas

“The structure of the work is seriously impaired by the common division into three parts”
― J.B. Lightfoot, The Shepherd of Hermas