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39. You73 will also find that John is like Matthew (in this respect) ; for in his Epistle74 he does not so much as make mention of himself, or call himself Elder75 or Apostle, or Evangelist. In the Gospel too, which was written by him, he says of himself that Jesus loved him, but he does not reveal his own name.
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73. 5 Demonstr. Evang. ib. p. 120. D. 74. 6 Our author speaks here of the First Epistle of John only: the second and third, -- in each of which the Apostle is indeed styled "Elder," -- being suspected as spurious for some time in the Church. See Euseb. Eccl. Hist. Lib. vi. cap. xxv. -- " In the fourth century, when Eusebius wrote his Ecclesiastical History, the Second and Third Epistles of St John were not reckoned among the o9mologoumena, but were in the number of the antilegomena, or books received by some, and rejected by others." Marsh's Michaelis, Vol. vi. sect. i. chap, xxxii, 75. 7 Ib. "The author neither calls himself John, nor assumes the title of Apostle; but names himself simply 'the Elder,' ( o9 presbuteroj)... St John might with the same propriety call himself presbuteroj, as St Peter called himself sumpresbuteroj; and after the death of St Peter, the title o9 presbuteroj might have been applied exclusively to St John, who was the only Apostle then living." See the whole of this: it. Proleg. Mill, in N.T. Edit. Kuster, sect. 151, 222: also Hammond's and Whitby's Prefaces to the Second Epistle of St John. [...]. |
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