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In this volume, Gary Derickson explores how John communicates his pastoral concerns in his three epistles. Interacting with the most recent scholarship, Derickson focuses on John’s message and concerns rather than following the common theory of a Johannine school and secessionist polemic. He distinguishes pastoral and polemical elements within John’s message and recognizes John’s own assessment...

disciple,” which term he used often for the author of both the Gospel and this epistle. His references may include 2 John as well (Painter, 39–40).8 The Muratorian canon (ca. A.D. 190) also identifies both the Gospel of John and 1 John as Johannine, quoting the first verse of the epistle.9 It says, “Indeed the Epistle of Jude and two of the above-mentioned John are accepted in the Catholic [church or epistles]” (Bruce, 18–19). All three epistles are included in the earliest Greek codices (Stott,
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