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When in graduate school at the University of Virginia, I searched using the phrase “religious mysticism” and the computer screen showed the author Madame Guyon. I wondered who she was and found her book The Autobiography of Madame Guyon. I opened and read the testimony of Guyon’s life. Since that first time of reading Jeanne Guyon’s theology, my life has continually been deepened and enriched by Guyon’s Christian worldview.

I offer this volume to those who study her and those wishing to live the profound Christian faith.

These are the first English translation of Guyon’s French commentaries of the letters of the Galatians, Ephesians, and Colossians. I translated these commentaries after I realized that here she expressed the essence of her Christian theology. Guyon studied specific verses from Galatians, Ephesians, and Colossians and wrote her ideas about them. Guyon developed her theology about the interior life based on these letters.

Guyon chose to write only about certain verses from these letters. She also did not repeat herself and covered ideas only once. This translation mirrors the original French commentary with integrity. Also, Guyon treasured the idea that Christ is the bridegroom of the soul and used male pronouns for God and female pronouns for the soul and the person. I have used her method and so throughout this volume female pronouns are employed for the reference to a person and male for God and Christ.

For the Bible translation, I chose the New Revised Standard Version.