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Epistles of John - The Preterist Archive

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GENUINENESS OF THE EPISTLE. 13<br />

second century— sought to pervert and bend to bis purpose the<br />

passage <strong>of</strong> 1 <strong>John</strong> v. 19, "Mundus in maligno positus est"<br />

(Origen in Genesin, cap. i.).<br />

Irenseus cites our Epistle, as is well known, with express<br />

mention <strong>of</strong> its author (adv. Hasr. iii. 16, v. and viii. ; the passages<br />

are 1 <strong>John</strong> ii. 18-22, iv. 1-3, v. 1) ; hence Eusebius (v. 8)<br />

writes concerning him (as concerning Papias) : pukp,vr]Tai Se kcu<br />

t?7

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