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The Epistles of John: Translated with Introduction, Notes, and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

With this study—companion to the masterful 2-volume The Gospel According to John—Raymond E. Brown completed his trilogy on the Johannine corpus. Meticulous in detail, exhaustive in analysis, persuasive in argument, it examines controversies that have long troubled both biblical scholars and lay readers. Questions of authorship, composition, and dating, as well as the debate over source theories,...

As de la Potterie, “Commencement” 382, shrewdly observes, “The ‘beginning’ of the Christian mission is like a taking up again and actualization of the ‘beginning’ of the mission of Jesus.” Overall, if one judges from the various Johannine uses of archē and from the comparative structure of the “what” clauses in 1 John 1:1, the most plausible meaning is E above, so that “What was from the beginning” means the person, words, and deeds of Jesus as this complexus reflects his self-revelation (which
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