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Commenting on First John, Martin Luther made this eloquent and true statement: "This is an outstanding Epistle. It can buoy up afflicted hearts. Furthermore, it has John's style and manner of expression, so beautifully and gently does it picture Christ to us." Modern critical studies have often presented the Gospel and Epistles of John as the capstone of the development of theological and...

Thus 1 John speaks of what has been heard, seen, looked upon, and touched. The reader remembers the climactic affirmation of John 1:14: “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” Probably that is exactly what the author intended. In several ways 1 John’s prologue and the statements following it refer to the incarnation, as Christian theology will call it, and invite the reader to reflect upon its nature and importance. The parenthetical verse 2, set off by dashes in RSV, describes “the life,” which
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