The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I. Dods Marcus
also Gen. xvi. 13, xviii. 22; Exod. iii. 6, xxiii. 20; Judges xiii. 22.
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For the need of intermediaries, see Plato, Symposium, pp. 202–3: “God mingles not with men; but there are spiritual powers which interpret and convey to God the prayers and sacrifices of men, and to men the commands and rewards of God. These powers span the chasm which divides them, and these spirits or intermediate powers are many and divine.” See also Philo (Quod Deus Immut., xiii.): “God is not comprehensible by the intellect. We know, indeed, that He is, but beyond the fact of His existence we know nothing.” The Word reveals God; see Philo (De post. Caini, vi.) “The wise man, longing to apprehend God, and travelling along the path of wisdom and knowledge, first of all meets with the Divine words, and with them abides as a guest.”
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See Isaac Taylor’s Restoration of Belief.
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See Pliny’s Letters to Trajan, 23, 98.
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See also Gen. xvi. 13, xviii. 22; Exod. iii. 6, xxiii. 20; Judges xiii. 22.
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For the need of intermediaries, see Plato,
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See Isaac Taylor’s
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See Pliny’s
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Cp. Faber’s
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The first introduction in the Gospel of the name of Jesus Christ.
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This expression means a succession of graces, higher grace ever taking the place of lower.
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See Mr. Reith’s rich Handbook on
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Modern topography inclines to identify this Cana, not, as formerly, with Kafr-Kenna, but with Kânet-el-Jelil, some six miles N.E. of Nazareth. It is called Cana of Galilee to distinguish it from Cana in Asher, S.E. from Tyre (Joshua xix. 28).