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<div2 id="iiJo.i" n="i" next="iiJo.ii" prev="iiJo" progress="92.69%" title="Introduction">
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<h2 id="iiJo.i-p0.1">Second John</h2>
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<p class="Center" id="iiJo.i-p1">
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Completed by <span class="smallcaps" id="iiJo.i-p1.1">John Reynolds, of
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Shrewsbury.</span></p>
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<div class="Center" id="iiJo.i-p1.3">
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<p id="iiJo.i-p2"><b>AN</b></p>
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<h3 id="iiJo.i-p2.1">EXPOSITION,</h3>
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<h4 id="iiJo.i-p2.2">W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E
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R V A T I O N S,</h4>
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<h5 id="iiJo.i-p2.3">OF THE SECOND EPISTLE OF</h5>
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<h2 id="iiJo.i-p2.4">J O H N.</h2>
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<hr style="width:2in"/>
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</div>
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<p class="indent" id="iiJo.i-p3"><span class="smallcaps" id="iiJo.i-p3.1">Here</span> we find
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a canonical epistle inscribed, principally, not only to a single
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person, but to one also of the softer sex. And why not to one of
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that sex? In gospel redemption, privilege, and dignity, <i>there is
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neither male nor female;</i> they are both one <i>in Christ
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Jesus.</i> Our Lord himself neglected his own repast, to commune
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with the woman of Samaria, in order to show her the fountain of
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life; and, when almost expiring upon the cross, he would with his
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dying lips bequeath his blessed mother to the care of his beloved
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disciple, and thereby instruct him to respect female disciples for
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the future. It was to one of the same sex that our Lord chose to
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appear first after his return from the grave, and to send by her
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the news of his resurrection to this as well as to the other
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apostles; and we find afterwards a zealous Priscilla so well
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acquitting herself in her Christian race, and particularly in some
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hazardous service towards the apostle Paul, that she is not only
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often mentioned before her husband, but to her as well as to him,
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not only the apostle himself, but also all the Gentile churches,
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were ready to return their thankful acknowledgments. No wonder then
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that a heroine in the Christian religion, honoured by divine
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providence, and distinguished by divine grace, should be dignified
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also by an apostolical epistle.</p>
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</div2>
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