An Exposition of The Epistles of Saint Paul to the Corinthians

by John Macevilly D.D., Paul A. Böer Sr. (Editor)

Besides supplying the intelligent Catholic with additional means of giving, in due circumstances, an account of “the hope that is in him” (1 Peter, 3:15)—the chief object of the present work—and furnishing the Ecclesiastical Student with a compendious Treatise, briefly setting forth the sense of these divine oracles, the study of which will form a portion of his daily occupation in the sacred ministry, to draw therefrom useful materials for “teaching, reproving, correcting, and instructing in justice, and to be rendered perfect, furnished to every good work” (2 Tim. 3:16), it is humbly conceived, that the publication of this and other such works, clearly setting forth the sense of the Sacred Scriptures, and fully carrying out the wholesome requisition of the Church, on this vitally important subject, will serve as a further practical confirmation of the arguments, whereby is abundantly demonstrated the anxious desire of the Catholic Church, to have the Holy Scriptures, hedged round with proper safeguards, communicated to her children. It will serve as an additional standing fact, a living exposition of her will in this respect, which even her bitterest enemies, on whom the most evident speculative reasoning usually fails to make any impression, will not presume to gainsay or call in question. Far from regarding the Holy Scriptures as sealed fountains, as we hear every day calumniously asserted regarding her, she proclaims the very contrary to the world in the person of the successor of St. Peter—“Illi enim sunt fontes uberrimi qui cuique patere debent ad hauriendam et morum et doctrinæ sanctitatem, depulsis erroribus, qui his corruptis temporibus late disseminantar.” “For they,” viz., the Sacred Scriptures, “are the most abundant sources, which ought to be left open to every one, to draw from them purity of morals and of doctrine, to eradicate the errors which are widely disseminated in these corrupt times.”

404 pages, Paperback

Published June 22, 2018