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The Johannine Epistles are today read as an important part of the Johannine literature. Yet the meaning of the text is often unclear. Part of the problem arises because, although 1 John is called an epistle, it lacks the formal marks of an epistle. In 1, 2, and 3 John, John Painter illuminates the relationship 1, 2, and 3 John have to each other and to the Gospel. Painter explains the historical...

often to be found in the way the text modifies prevailing meanings and values (see Gal 3:26–28; Eph 5:15–6:9). The meaning of the text for the present is often to be found in the element that opens up the meaning for the future and that may be in tension with aspects that bind meaning to the past. Naturally, for the Johannine tradition meaning is rooted in the past. The witness of the Gospel and Epistles confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. But this event did not reestablish the old
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