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The letters of John are important. They give modern believers a snapshot of what life was like within the Christian community of Asia Minor in the first century. They point out that life was not always easy for Christians of the first and second generations. These three brief letters bring modern readers face to face with the external opposition as well as with the doctrinal errors and internal...

There is a remarkable degree of unanimity within New Testament scholarship on the date of John’s Epistles. Many modern writers, based largely on the opinion of Irenaeus, date them during the closing decade of the first century (Moody 14; Hunter 175). Kistemaker (218) is typical of many who reflect a conservative viewpoint; he dates all three letters between A.D. 90 and 95. These epistles probably were written in or near the city of Ephesus, where, according to early Christian
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