The Second and Third Epistles of Saint John in the Commentaries of the Church Fathers
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https://doi.org/10.15633/sts.4184Keywords:
Second Epistle of John, Third Epistle of John, Clement of Alexandria, Didymus the Blind, Bede the Venerable, Oecumenius Ślepy, Beda Czcigodny, EkumeniuszAbstract
The purpose of this paper is to present the content of the ancient commentaries on the Second and Third Epistles of Saint John the Apostle. These two short letters are some of the least read and commented on in the New Testament. The same, though perhaps even more so, can be said of the few ancient commentaries of these letters. Reading the works of Clement of Alexandria, Didymus the Blind, Bede the Venerable, Oecumenius or Hilary of Arles we notice that when commenting the Second and the Third Epistles of John they focused primarily on the circumstances of their creation and enquire as to the identity to whom the Epistles were addressed, and the identity of the other people mentioned in the text. However, their comments also include theological themes. Sometimes starting from seemingly unrelated theological passages in the Epistles, they dealt with theological themes more appropriate to their own time rather than to the apostolic time. Among such topics we can mention the parousia of Christ, the reality of His incarnation and the relationship of the Son of God with God the Father. Within this circle also remains the exegetes’ interest in the necessity of preserving the true faith and of dissociating themselves from heretics who distort it.
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