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"It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing."
And those in the tenth:--
"I am the door of the sheep."
"I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the
sheep."
"I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine."
Then, if we compare parables, the passage in the Fourth Gospel most
resembling a parable, viz., the similitude of the Vine and the branches,
is made up of detached sentences more "terse" and "concise" than those
of most parables in the Synoptics.
The discourses in St. John are upon subjects very distasteful to the
author of "Supernatural Religion," and he loses no opportunity of
expressing his dislike to them; but it is a gross misrepresentation to
say that the instruction, whatever it be, is conveyed in other than
sentences as simple, terse, and concise as those of the Synoptics,
though the subject-matter is different.
We will now proceed to the last assertion:--
"One [system of teaching] clothed in the great language of humanity,
the other concealed in obscure philosophic terminology.
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