1928, ISBN: 05de3169c9ee07c0a6386d3286ff53d3

[PU: New York Harper and Brothers [196-?].], BIBLE. N.T. COMMENTARIES GOSPELS JESUS CHRIST, Jacket, VG orig. maroon cloth in scuffed purple dj. lxviii, 378 p.; 20.5 cm. (Moffatt New Testa… More...

[PU: New York Harper and Brothers [196-?].], BIBLE. N.T. COMMENTARIES GOSPELS JESUS CHRIST, Jacket, VG orig. maroon cloth in scuffed purple dj. lxviii, 378 p.; 20.5 cm. (Moffatt New Testament commentary, based on the new translation by James Moffatt) [First pr. 1928] Contents of Introduction: I. The Fourth Gospel and the synoptics. 1. The evangelist's knowledge of the synoptics, 2. The Fourth Gospel compared with the synoptics -- II. History or didactic drama? How far is John a biographer? -- III. Aims and influences -- IV. The doctrine of the logos -- V. Literary structure -- VI. The `Beloved Disciple' and the authorship of the Gospel -- VII. The relation of the appendix [ch. 21] to the question of authorship -- VIII. John, the elder of Ephesus, and the external evidence -- IX. The date of the Gospel -- X. Conclusion. -- `We conclude then that three persons have played their part in reducing our Gospel to its present form, of whom the second is the author in the true sense of the word, who has stamped upon the book the marks of his genius and welded it into an organic whole. (1) Behind the Gospel stands the figure of the Witness, the `Disciple whom Jesus loved,' a young Jerusalemite disciple, outside the number of the Twelve, but admitted ot the inner circle during the closing days. (2) The Evangelist himself, afterwards John the Elder of Ephesus, we conceive to have been a younger contemporary and disciple of the Witness. (3) Before it reached its final form the Gospel was revised by a later Redactor. The occasion of this revision may have been the death of John of Ephesus. Whoever wrote it, the Fourth Gospel will always be the Holy of Holies of Christian literature. Whoever Witness, Evangelist, Redactor may have been, to all three the world owes its gratitude for the book which is, as Luther puts it, the `chiefest of the Gospels, unique, tender, and true.'. Binding is Hardcover.<