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<P><FONT SIZE=+3>John</FONT></P>
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<P><B>AN</B></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+2>EXPOSITION,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+1>W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N S,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=-1>OF THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+3><B>S T. J O H N.</B></FONT>
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It is not material to enquire when and where this gospel was written;
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we are sure that it was given by inspiration of God to John, the
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brother of James, one of the twelve apostles, distinguished by the
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honourable character of <I>that disciple whom Jesus loved,</I> one of
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the first three of the worthies of the Son of David, whom he took to be
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the witnesses of his retirements, particularly of his transfiguration
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and his agony. The ancients tell us that John lived longest of all the
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twelve apostles, and was the only one of them that died a natural
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death, all the rest suffering martyrdom; and some of them say that he
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wrote this gospel at Ephesus, at the request of the ministers of the
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several churches of Asia, in opposition to the heresy of Corinthus and
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the Ebionites, who held that our Lord was a <I>mere man.</I> It seems
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most probable that he wrote it before his banishment into the isle of
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Patmos, for there he wrote his <I>Apocalypse,</I> the close of which
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seems designed for the closing up of the canon of scripture; and, if
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so, this gospel was not written after. I cannot therefore give credit
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to those later fathers, who say that he wrote it in his banishment, or
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after his return from it, many years after the destruction of
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Jerusalem; when he was ninety years old, saith one of them; when he was
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a hundred, saith another of them. However, it is clear that he wrote
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last of the four evangelists, and, comparing his gospel with theirs, we
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may observe,
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1. That he <I>relates</I> what they had <I>omitted;</I> he <I>brings up
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the rear,</I> and his gospel is as the <I>rearward</I> or <I>gathering
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host;</I> it gleans up what they has passed by. Thus there was a
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<I>later</I> collection of Solomon's wise sayings
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Pr+25:1">Prov. xxv. 1</A>),
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and yet far short of what he delivered,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=1Ki+4:32">1 Kings iv. 32</A>.
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2. That he gives us more of the <I>mystery</I> of that of which the
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other evangelists gave us only the <I>history.</I> It was necessary
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that the matters of fact should be first settled, which was done in
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their <I>declarations of those things which Jesus began both to do and
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teach,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Lu+1:1,Ac+1:1">Luke i. 1; Acts i. 1</A>.
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But, this being done out of the mouth of two or three witnesses,
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<I>John goes on to perfection</I>
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Heb+6:1">Heb. vi. 1</A>),
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<I>not laying again the foundation,</I> but building upon it, leading
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us more within the veil. Some of the ancients observe that the other
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evangelists wrote more of the <B><I>ta somatika</I></B>--the
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<I>bodily</I> things of Christ; but John writes of the <B><I>ta
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pneumatika</I></B>--the <I>spiritual</I> things of the gospel, the life
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and soul of it; therefore some have called this gospel the <I>key of
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the evangelists.</I> Here is it that a <I>door</I> is <I>opened in
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heaven,</I> and the first voice we hear is, <I>Come up hither,</I> come
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up higher. Some of the ancients, that supposed the four living
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creatures in John's vision to represent the for evangelists, make John
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himself to be the <I>flying eagle,</I> so <I>high</I> does he
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<I>soar,</I> and <I>so clearly</I> does he <I>see</I> into divine and
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