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300 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. sions, as also their composition, it might be very reasonably con jectured that this one is different from that. epistle mutually agree. They commence in the same way ; for the one says, ' In the beginning was the word ;' the other, ' That which was from the beginning.' The one says, and the word was made flesh, and dwelt (tabernacled) among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father.' The other says the same things, a little altered : That which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, that which we have seen and our hands have handled of the word of life, and the life was manifested.' These things, therefore, are premised, alluding, as he has shown in the subsequent parts, to those who say that the Lord did not come into the flesh. Wherefore, also, he has designedly subjoined : * What we have seen we testify, and we declare to you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was made manifest to us ; what we have seen and heard we declare to you.' He keeps to the point, and does not depart from his subjects, but goes through all in the same chap ters and names, some of which we shall briefly notice. ^ " But the attentive reader will find the expressions, the life, the light, frequently occurring in both ; in both he will find the expressions, Jieeing from darkness, the truth, grace, joy, the Jtesh and blood of the Lord, the judgment, forgiveness of sins, the love of God to us, the commandment given us of love to one another, that ice ought to keep all the commandments, the conviction of the world, the devil, of anti-christ, iJie promise of the holy spirit, the adoption of God (i. e. the adoption made by God), the faith to be exhibited by us in all matters, the Father and the Son, every where occurring in both. And altogether throughout, to attentive ob servers, it will be obvious that there is one and the same com plexion and character in the gospel and epistle. Very different and remote from all this, is the apocalypse ; not even touching, or even Bordering upolTEh^hT"m"tKeTeastri might say. Not even containing a syllable in common with them ; but the epistle, to say nothing of the gospel, has not made any mention, or given any intimation of the apocalypse, nor does the apocalypse men tion the epistle. Whereas, Paul indicates something of his reve