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Stephen Smalley’s exhaustive commentary on the Greek text of the letters of John argues that these epistles, together with the fourth Gospel, record and reflect the spiritual history of the Johannine community itself. These letters contain theological, ethical and practical truths that are fundamental to the Christian position in every age: that Jesus is one with God as well as one with us; that...

and Magn. 10.3; for the “Judaism” of the Johannine letters cf. Robinson, “Destination,” 130–32), and an indifference to right conduct (including love) as a characteristic of the Hellenistic adherents (see 1 John 3:10–11; 2 Pet 2:19; Ignatius Smyrn. 6.2; for ethical libertinism, combined with eschatological skepticism, as a feature of gnostic thought, see C. H. Talbert, VC 20 [1966] 141–45). Gnosticizing tendencies in the early Church were derived from a dualist view of existence. Because esoteric
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