From Reformation to Reformation

The parts: I. The description of the person and coming of Christ: chapter 1:1-18. II. The ministry of John the Baptist: chapter 1:19-36....

8. The Parts of the Book are five. I. Description of the Person and coming of Christ (chapter 1:1-18). II. The ministry of John the...

7. The time of writing. With respect to the time of writing, that he wrote after the other Evangelists, even indeed at an old and infirm...

6. The idiom of the Book, and the sort of speech. The idiomatic expressions of Saint John. Now, he wrote his Gospel in the Greek Tongue,...

5. The argument. Therefore, Saint John, being about to compose the last of the history and sermons of Christ, covers in writing that...

4. A twofold occasion of writing is laid out, one out of Eusebius, the other out of Irenæus. Ancient writers ascribe a twofold occasion...

3. The writer of the Gospel. The Divinity of it against the Alogians asserted. That this John is the writer of this Gospel, he himself...

2. Description of the person of John: Boanerges, ἐπισήθιος, one leaning on the breast, the Theologian, Pillar of the Church. His History...

1. The inscription of the book. The Book is inscribed τὸ κατὰ Ἰωάννην Εὐαγγέλιον, the Gospel according to John. Concerning which the same...