Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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WRITTEN AT EPHESUS AT AN UNCERTAIN
DATE LATER THAN 80 A.D.
This gospel appears to embody the doctrine concerning
Christ which was accepted in the Ephesian Church in Asia
Minor by the end of the First Century. It was not authoritatively
attributed to the Apostle John till towards the end of
the Second Century after Christ; but it may safely be ascribed,
if not to St. John himself, to some writer brought up in the
Church of Ephesus, over which that Apostle so long presided.
The writer apparently proposed to himself to illustrate the
spirit of the ‘Gospel of Love’ by such incidents in the life of
Jesus as best suited his purpose; at the same time correcting
previous gospels, and making such additions to them, as
his information enabled him to do. There is no attempt at a
regular connected narrative; and the writer allows himself
such freedom in commenting upon the teaching of Jesus, that
it is not always easy to tell where that teaching ends and the
writer's comment begins.
It is to the great struggle between Light and Darkness,
Death and Life—words much in use and much debated in the
current philosophy of Ephesus—that the writer devotes his
attention, rather than to the external incidents of a story which
has already been told, and which is plainly viewed by him from
a greater distance of time than is the case with the compilers of
the three other gospels.
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ACCORDING TO JOHN.
Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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