Introduction to the Johannine Writings e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The three Epistles of St. John have already been fully discussed in my Introduction to the 'catholic Epistles. At onetime I thought Of restricting this present work to a consideration of the Fourth Gospel and the Apocalypse, omitting the Epistles; but, as many of my readers may not possess my former work, and as an Introduction to the Johannine writings would he obviously incomplete were the consideration Of the Epistles omitted, I have thought it, upon the whole, better to discuss these Epistles in an abbreviated form, referring my readers for their more ample dis cussion to what I have already written in my previous work.