A commentary on the Epistles of St. John - The Preterist Archive

TRANSLATOR S PREFACE.
tion of the work, while passing through the
press ; still, he has already discovered one mis-
print, p. 16, where, in the last line of the text,
the Reader is desired to read no instead of an.
The introduction of a few technical terms,
which are unusual in English, was found to be
unavoidable ; but the appellation of Doketists,
which some English divines have called Docetists,
was deliberately adopted on philological grounds,
not merely because the word is of Greek and not
of Latin origin, but because some image at least
is thus preserved of the English parallel root
jio/„v/x5/ is in Enghsh methinks; and the Do-
ketists had their name from maintaining that
Christ's manifestation in the flesh Avas a mere
appearance : In ancient Scotch they would say,
" the Apostles thocltt that they saw Christ."
Dr. Lücke has given a German version of St.
John's Epistles, along with his Commentary: the
Translator perceived that justice could not be
done to the Doctor's work, without translating
this version : it is a version of such a Greek text
as Dr. Lücke has deliberately adopted, and is
also in conformity with the interpretation given
in the Commentary. It is, in many instances,
m.uch more clear and perspicuous than the ver-
sion of the English Bible.
We beg leave to accompany Dr. Lücke's ex-
cellent work with the sincere wish, that his ex-
ample may be fruitful among divines, both of
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