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In her commentary on John’s letters, Karen H. Jobes writes to bridge the distance between academic biblical studies and pastors, students, and laypeople who are looking for an in-depth treatment of the issues raised by these New Testament books. She approaches the three letters of John as part of the corpus that includes John’s Gospel, while rejecting an elaborate redactional history of that...

appeared” (περὶ τοῦ λόγου τῆς ζωῆς … ἡ ζωὴ ἐφανερώθη), which modifies all three neuter relative clauses. Moreover, in verse 2, the Life that appeared “was with the Father” (ἦν πρὸς τὸν πατέρα), another echo of John 1:1, where the same preposition (πρός) is used in reference to God (“the Word was with God”). The interpretation that “what was from the beginning” in 1 John 1:1 is a reference that ties the gospel to the preexistent Christ seems to sit well with the use of the same prepositional
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