Introduction to the Johannine Writings #268883

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.