GENERAL INTRODUCTION Drummond, R J., and Morris, Leon “1, 2, John.” In The New Bible Commentary, pp 1259-60; 1270-71 Hiebert, D Edmond An Introduction to the Non-Pauline Epistles Pages 159-80 (Jude); pp 181-228 (1, 2, John) Ryrie, Charles C “I, II, III John,” In The Wycliffe Bible Commentary, pp 1463-66 COMMENTARIES Candlish, R S The First Epistle of John Coder, S Maxwell Jude: the Acts of the Apostates Leaney, A.R.C The Letters of Peter and Jude Plummer, A The Epistles of St John OTHER RELATED SOURCES Findlay, G C Fellowship in the Life Eternal Ironside, H A Addresses on the Epistle of John Thomas, Robert L., ed New American Standard Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible Thomas, W H Gri th Life and Writings of the Apostle John Vincent, Marvin R Word Studies in the New Testament, vol Wuest, Kenneth S In These Last Days Merrill F Unger, Unger’s Bible Dictionary, p 597 Charles C Ryrie, “I, II, III John,” in The Wycliffe Bible Commentary, p 1463 Merrill C Tenney, New Testament Survey, rev ed., p 189 4 Testimony is by such church Fathers as Polycarp, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, and Tertullian Merrill C Tenney, New Testament Survey, p 376 W Graham Scroggie, Know Your Bible, Vol 2, p 346 Tenney, New Testament Survey, p 381 F W Farrar, The Early Days of Christianity, pp 520-21 Such variety is evidenced by these possible breakdowns in the structure of the epistle: Twofold: 1:5—2:27; 2:28—5:5 Threefold: 1:1—2:11; 2:12—4:6; 4:7—5:21 Fourfold: 1:5—2:11; 2:12-28; 2:29—3:22; 3:23—5:17 Fivefold: 1:5—2:11; 2:12-27; 2:28—3:24a; 3:246—4:21; 5:1-21 (Cf James Mo att, An Introduction to the Literature of the New Testament, p 584.) 10 Such an outline by one author is: (1) A Joyful Life, (2) A Victorious Life, (3) A Guarded Life, (4) A Life of Knowledge (From Robert Lee, The Outlined Bible.) 11 The word antichrist is used only by John in the New Testament, at these places: John 2:18, 22; 4:3; John The pre x anti of the Greek may be translated either “against” or “instead of.” The Zondervan Pictorial Bible Dictionary says, “The word antichrist may mean either an enemy of Christ or one who usurps Christ’s name and rights,” p 47 12 Charles C Ryrie, “I, II, III John,” The Wycliffe Bible Commentary, p 1483 13 These are the two shortest books of the Bible, John being one line shorter than John in the Greek text 14 A Plummer, The Epistles of St John, p 153 15 See Chart 1, page 20 If verses 17 and 18 refer to things Peter wrote in Peter ... 11 The word antichrist is used only by John in the New Testament, at these places: John 2:18, 22; 4:3; John The pre x anti of the Greek may be translated either “against” or “instead of. ” The. .. evidenced by these possible breakdowns in the structure of the epistle: Twofold: 1:5—2:27; 2:28—5:5 Threefold: 1:1—2:11; 2:12—4:6; 4:7—5:21 Fourfold: 1:5—2:11; 2:12-28; 2:29—3:22; 3:23—5:17 Fivefold:...OTHER RELATED SOURCES Findlay, G C Fellowship in the Life Eternal Ironside, H A Addresses on the Epistle of John Thomas, Robert L., ed New American Standard Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible