Introduction And Analysis
INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS
The second and third Epistles of John present us with the closest approximations in the New Testament to the conventional letter form of the contemporary Graeco-Roman world.219 The second epistle, which deals with the same general problem as the first epistle, but apparently in reference to the particular situation of one local group or house-church, lends itself readily to the following analysis:
219 Cf. R. W. Funk, “The Form and Structure of II and III John,” JBL 86 (1967), pp. 424 ff.