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Title: Love to the Uttermost
Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.

Author: F. B. Meyer

Release Date: August 23, 2007 [EBook #22376]

Language: English

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LOVE TO THE UTTERMOST

EXPOSITIONS OF JOHN XIII--XXI.

BY

F. B. MEYER, B. A.

Author of

"The life and Light of Men: Expositions of John I.--XII.;"
"Old Testament Heroes;"
"The Shepherd Psalm;" etc.

NEW YORK ---- CHICAGO ---- TORONTO

Fleming H. Revell Company

Publishers of Evangelical Literature

Copyright, 1898-1899

by

Fleming H. Revell Company

THIS BOOK ON

THE UTTERMOST LOVE OF CHRIST

IS DEDICATED

TO MY DEAR WIFE,

WHOSE PATIENT CARE OF OUR HOME

HAS ENABLED ME

TO WRITE SO MUCH AND TRAVEL SO FAR

IN HIS SERVICE.

PREFACE

The former book on the first twelve chapters of this sublime Gospel was
called, _The Life and Light of Men_. The title was naturally suggested
by the subject-matter of those chapters. We had little difficulty in
finding a title for the present book, which covers, however cursorily,
the remainder of the Gospel. It lay open before us in the opening
verses of the thirteenth chapter, as translated in the margin of the
Revised Version. "Having loved His own which were in the world, _He
loved them to the uttermost_."

It has been impossible, in the limited space at my disposal, to deal
with these chapters as I would. Indeed, to do so, it would be
necessary to know the length, and breadth, and depth, and height of the
Love of God, which passeth knowledge. Time has been allowed to elapse,
in the hope that the view would be clearer, and the expression more
adequate, of the deep things to which the Lord gave expression. But it
is useless to wait till one is satisfied of the adequacy of one's work,
else life will have run its course before a beginning has been made.
At the end of ten more years, the task would seem still more
impracticable.

In the closing chapters I have woven together the narratives of the
f