M } The more སྙས སྙ Apostle. Had this doublet of the Apostle ever existed, he could not have failed to appear in Leucius: and in his pages the Apostle of Ephesus could never have been called simply John, if he had had at his side a second disciple of Jesus of this name." We, therefore, give up the second John as unhistorical. It would seem as if 'Presbyter John' was destined to plague and perplex historians. A spectral personage of this name troubles, as we have seen, the history of the Church of Ephesus. Another equally mysterious personage of the same name confronts us in the history of Europe in the twelfth century; when the West was cheered with the news that a mighty Priest-King called Presbyter Johannes had arisen in the East, and restored victory to the Christian cause in the contest with the Saracens. For this extraordinary story, which appears first perhaps in Otto of Freisingen, see Baring Gould's Myths of the Middle Ages, p. 32. Probably in this case an unfamiliar oriental name was corrupted into a familiar name which happened to sound something like it. INDICES. I. GENERAL. Abel as a type, 130 Alexander of Alexandria quotes the analysis, of the First Epistle, 44, 45 of the Third Epistle, 62 antithesis, S. John's love of, 48, 81, 83, antithetic parallelism, 79, 81, 83 exhibits_parallels with the Apollonius on S. John at Ephesus, 11, 23 49,86 of S. John's style, 49, 74, children of the devil, 126, 128 Clement of Alexandria, employs the First collective neuter gender, 157 Coverdale's improvements in the English 31, 96; to the Second Epistle, 51, 183 Dante on S. John, 46 date of the Epistles, 34, 58, 61 Jelf quoted, 74, 107, 135, 137, 161 John the Apostle and Cerinthus, 24; and John the Elder, or the Presbyter, 54, 175, Justin Martyr on the Apocalypse, Ic key-words in the Second Epistle, 177, Leucian fragments, 26, 213 Mansel quoted, 204 Maurice quoted, 86, 101, 112, 126, 140, Muratorian Fragment, testimony of, to parallels between S. John and S. Paul, 202 parallels between S. John's Gospel and partitive genitive, 139 Pascal quoted, 154 pen, 194 perfect, force of the Greek, 85, 100, 130, 143; replies to Marcion, 128; proclaims 179 58; quoted by Irenaeus, 50, 51, 180; Taverner's Bible, 66 tendencies, the three evil, 104, 196 Third Epistle, authorship of, 50-56, 60; three evil tendencies, 104, 196 Three Heavenly Witnesses, 161, 204- 212 Timothy, possibly the Angel of the traditions respecting S. John, 22-27 Tyndale's New Testament, 64, 65 Universality of Redemption, 89, 150 Versions, Ancient, 64; English, 64-68 Zahn quoted, 215, 216 |