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A NEW

LITERAL TRANSLATION

FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK,

OF ALL THE

APOSTOLICAL EPISTLES.

WITH

A COMMENTARY, AND NOTES,

PHILOLOGICALCRITICAL, EXPLANATORY, AND PRACTICAL;

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW;

AND WILLIAM CREECH, AND OGLE AND AIKMAN, EDINBURGH,

1806.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SIXTH VOLUME.

1 JOHN, p. I.

PREFACE. Sect. 1. The history of John.—2. The authenticity

of this epistle established.-3. Of the state of the church

when it was written, and of John's design in writing it.-4.

Of the time and place of writing it.-5. Of the persons for

whom it was designed.

2 JOHN, p. 129.

Preface. Sect. 1. Of the authenticity of this epistle.-2. Of

the person to whom it was written.--3. Of John's design in
writing it. Of the Ebionites and Gnostics. Conclusion, in
which the love, which John so strongly inculcates, is described.

3 JOHN, p. 149.

Preface. Sect. 1. Of the authenticity of this epistle.-2. Of

the person to whom it was written.-3. Of the purpose for
which it was written, and of the persons mentioned in it.
4. Of the date of the 2d and 3d epistles of John.

JUDE, p. 171.

Prefacé. Sect. 1. The history of Jude.--2. This epistle was

written by Jude the apostle.-3. Of the persons to whom it

was written, and of its date.--4. Of the occasion of writ-

ing it.

Supplement to Effay IV. p. 219.

Essay