the Mount, which, far beyond all other teaching, stops every mouth and brings in all the world guilty before God; and then the way is prepared for fuller revelations, such as that of the Atonement by the Death of Christ as set forth in the Epistles of St. Peter and St. Paul, and the revelation culminates in the knowledge of the Father and the Son in the Fourth Gospel. With respect to the assertion of the author of "Supernatural Religion," that the discourses in this Gospel are, as compared with those in the Synoptics, _wholly_ dogmatic, as opposed to moral, the reader may judge of the truth of this by the following sayings of the Fourth Gospel:-- "Every one that doeth evil hateth the light." "He that doeth truth cometh to the light." "God is a Spirit, and they who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth." "They that have done good [shall come forth] to the Resurrection of Life." "How can ye believe who receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh of God only?" "If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God." "The truth shall make you free," coupled with "Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin." "If I your Lord and Master have washed your feet, ye ought also to wash one another's feet." "A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another as I have loved you." "He that hath My commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me." These sayings, the reader will perceive, embody the deepest and highest moral teaching conceivable. One more point remains to be considered--the impossibility that St. John, taking into account his education and intellect, should have been the author of the Fourth Gospel. This is stated in the following passage:-- "The philosophical statements with which the Gospel commences, it will be admitted, are anything but characteristic of the son of thunder, the ignorant and unlearned fisherman of Galilee, who, to a comparatively late period of life, continued preaching in his native country to his brethren of the circumcision.... In the Alexandrian philosophy, everything was prepared for the final application of the doctrine, and nothing is more clear than the fact that the writer of the Fourth Gospel was well acquainted with the teaching of the Alexandrian school, from which he derived his philosophy, and its elaborate and systematic application to Jesus alone indicates a late development of Christian doctrine, which, we maintain, could not have been attained by the Judaistic son of Zebedee." (Vol. ii. p. 415) Again, in the preceding page:--