Epistles of John - The Preterist Archive

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IDENTITY OF AUTHOE OF THIS EPISTLE AND EVANGELIST. 7
other Hebraic kinds of construction and thought : e.g., the
paraphrase of the Gen. by etc, 1 John iv. 13, comp. John i. 35,
vi. 8 and 70, and the resolution of a relative in a conditional
clause (idv ris . . . ovk eanv iv avra> instead of oar is, k.t.X.),
1 John ii. 15, iii. 17, comp. John vi. 43, etc. The resolution
of a simple antithesis into a final or causal sentence dependent
upon a word to be supplied (ovk rjcrav i% rjficov a\V Xva . . .),
1 John ii. 19, comp. John i. 8, iii. 28 ; the paraphrase of the
instrumental Dative by iv, 1 John ii. 3, comp. John i. 26 and
33, xvi. 30 ; and, finally, the abundant use of Oewpelv and
Oeaadai, while of opav only the Perfect occurs, and of individual
phrases, such as rijv ^v^ijv ridevai, Qebs o dXrjOivos, o T7)p
tov Kocrfxov 6 Xpicrros, Koa/xos \afxf3dvei, and of cpaiveiv,
reKvia,
iraihla, etc.
More important than these specialities is the similarity of
the circle of ideas in both writings. The notious w, for],
a/coTia, dXwOeia, yjrevSos, meet us in the Epistle in the same
broad, and deep, and essentially speculative meaning which they
bear in the Gospel : so also recur the notions i\a.fj,6$, iroielv ttjv
SiKaiocrvvTjv, rrpi dp-apTiav, ri)v dvofilav ; and the sharply presented
antitheses