New Testament: Letters and Revelation v. 2

There is no part of the New Testament harder for a modern man to understand than the Letters. The Gospels are narrative; the Letters are argument: and argument is always more difficult to follow than narrative. And yet the Letters are of the greatest importance for it is in them, and in them alone, that we can trace the development of the Church and the Church's life and faith in the earliest days. In them we meet practical problems of life and conduct, and the even deeper problems presented by those who attacked and those who perverted the faith. The aim of this book is to translate these Letters, and in translating to interpret them, so that modern man may find, not only information about the past, but also guidance for the present.