THE MODERN READER'S BIBLE A SERIES OF WORKS FROM THE SACRED SCRIPTURES PRESENTED THE GOSPEL, EPISTLES, AND REVELATION OF ST. JOHN EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND notes BY RICHARD G. MOULTON, M.A. (Camb.), PH.D. (PENN.) PROFESSOR OF Literature IN ENGLISH IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. All rights reserved University of Wisconsin-Madis Madison, WI 53706-1494 U.S.A. COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published July, 1898 Norwood Press THE writings ascribed to St. John-Gospel, Epistles, Revelation may be classed with the Book of Deuteronomy in the fact that they are, for New and Old Testament respectively, the storm centres of modern controversy. Over Johannine literature intricate and multiplied questions of genuineness and authenticity, of canonical authority, of theological exegesis, have at all times arisen, and divided the world of scholarship and religious thought. It will be understood that nothing of this controversy will be represented in the pages that follow. The Modern Reader's Bible has from the first excluded questions of authorship and textual history: this consideration of itself disposes of more than half the matter of disputation. Discussions of canonical questions are similarly excluded. From theology in a sense it is impossible to separate ourselves the literature we call secular is imbued with religious thought, and Biblical writings cannot but be full of it. But the province of the present series ends just where the province of the systematic theologian begins: the formula |