A system of philosophy, professedly Christian, devised to

solve such questions as the origin of evil. Much that is

written by John concerning the person of Christ is levelled

at the incipient Gnosticism of his day.

Words from these languages are transliterated into English,

and printed in italic type. No attempt has been made to

distinguish the short and long `o' and the short and long `e'

in the Greek, nor to give an exact phonetic spelling of the

This is the Greek New Testament from which the

Authorized Version of the Bible was prepared. Comments

in this work on John's gospel are made with this version of

the Greek in mind, and where there are variances from the

Nestlé Greek Text, and/or other critical texts `in the

Received Text' is printed in brackets next to the word or

words in question.