LITERAL TRANSLATION

FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK,

OF ALL THE

APOSTOLICAL EPISTLES.

WITH

A COMMENTARY, AND NOTES,
PHILOLOGICAL, CRITICAL, EXPLANATORY, AND PRACTICALÓ

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL.

By JAMES MACKNIGHT, D. D.

AUTHOR OF A HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS, ..

THE SECOND EDITION. IN SIX VOLUMES.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

VOL. VI.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW,
AND WILLIAM CREECH, AND OGLE AND AIKMAN, EDINBURGH..

1806.

1 JOHN, p. 1.

PREFACE.

Sect. 1. The history of John.-2. The authenticity

of this epiftle established.—3. Of the state of the church

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

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

whom it was defigned.

J

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 defign in
writing it. Of the Ebionites and Gnoftics. Conclufion, in
which the love, which John so strongly inculcates, is described.

3 JOHN, p. 149.

Preface. Sect. 1. Of the authenticity of this epiftle.-2. Of
the perfon to whom it was written.-3. Of the purpose for
which it was written, and of the perfons mentioned in it.-
4. Of the date of the 2d and 3d epiftles of John.

JUDE, p. 171.

Preface. Sect. 1. The history of Jude.-2. This epiftle was

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

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

ing it.

Supplement to Effay IV. p. 219.

Effay