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Based on the latest text of the NIV, this updated commentary reflects the most current scholarship. This updated and revised Pillar commentary seeks to clearly explain the meaning of John’s letters to teachers, pastors, and general readers looking for a reliable and trusted resource for personal study. Colin Kruse introduces the important issues involved in interpreting the Johannine letters,...

which in turn owes most to the OT. In the Fourth Gospel, however, Christ, not God, is the light, probably because of the christological emphasis of this gospel: over and over again what the OT predicates of God is predicated of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel (“I am the light of the world”; “I am the good shepherd”; “before Abraham was born, I am”; “I am the resurrection and the life”). 1:8 Having stated his counterhypothesis to the first claim, the author moves on to state, in another conditional sentence,
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