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Letters of John and Jude Of this series, William Barclay writes: The Daily Study Bible series has always had one aim—to convey the results of scholarship to the ordinary reader. A. S. Peake delighted in the saying that he was a "theological middleman," and I would be happy if the same could be said of me in regard to these volumes. And yet the primary aim of the series has never been academic....

The trouble which First John seeks to combat did not come from men out to destroy the Christian faith but from men who thought they were improving it. It came from men whose aim was to make Christianity intellectually respectable. They knew the intellectual tendencies and currents of the day and felt that the time had come for Christianity to come to terms with secular philosophy and contemporary thought. THE CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY What, then, was this contemporary thought and philosophy with which
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