John's Gospel and Intimations of Apocalyptic

28 Der Lukasprolog I, strains 19-20: Jürgen Regul, Die antimarcionitischen Evangelienprologe (Vetus Latina 6; Freiburg: Verlag Herder, 1969), pp. 30–1. 1 BOXALL Johannine ‘Apocalypse in opposite’ sixty seven hoc autem evangelium scripsit in Asia, posteaquam in Pathmos insula apocalypsin scripserat, ut, cui in principio canonis incorruptibile principium in genesi, et incorruptibilis ¿nis according to virginem in apocalypsi redderetur, dicente Christo: Ego sum C et Y (Monarchian Prologue to John, attributed to Priscillian, d. 386). 29 I point out this tendency to put Revelation early within the Johannine trajectory since it represents an early slump approximately chronological order, which has the same opinion with an inclination between a few modern students, who arrive at it through relatively assorted routes, and with no presupposing universal authorship. 30 Does putting Revelation early within the Johannine trajectory turn out to be a greater manner of explaining either the similarities and the variations? to offer only one instance, does it aid clarify Revelation’s polemical language of the ‘synagogue of devil’ (Rev 2. nine; three. nine) spoken via an writer nonetheless eager to preserve for himself the identify ’*PVEBJPK? the following we haven't the full-blooded Johannine use of ’*PVEBJPJ (‘Jews’ keeps its optimistic sense), even supposing symptoms of an irreconcilable ¿ssure are commencing to escape, and persecution instigated via the synagogue seems to be a real chance. five. Six Examples it's time now to come to the textual content of the Apocalypse, and to its similarities with the Fourth Gospel. there are various areas the place impressive verbal echoes come to the outside, demanding the statement of Dionysius of Alexandria that Revelation virtually lacks ‘even a syllable’ in universal with the Gospel and 1 John. to demonstrate the purpose, i would like to target six pairs of verses (in every one pair one from the Apocalypse and one from the Gospel), the place commentators have famous such similarities. 31 a few of these are extra by way of grammatical constitution than 29 Regul, Die antimarcionitischen Evangelienprologe, p. forty three. 30 R. H. Charles concludes, in his 1919 Schweich Lectures at the Apocalypse: ‘John [the Seer] was once essentially attached not directly with the writer of the Gospel and Epistles. both those Johns belonged to an identical spiritual circle in Ephesus, or extra most likely the writer of the Gospel and Epistles used to be in a few demeanour a student of John the Seer, notwithstanding grasp and student took very diversified instructions, as isn't strange in such situations’ (R. H. Charles, Lectures at the Apocalypse [The Schweich Lectures 1919; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford college Press, for the British Academy, 1923], pp. 72–3). 31 for many of those, see Ben Witherington III, Revelation (New Cambridge Bible statement; Cambridge: Cambridge college Press, 2003), p. three. sixty eight John’s Gospel and Intimations of Apocalyptic vocabulary, a few a mix of either. whereas now not all through themselves may well persuade, they can be amazing for his or her peculiarities, and that i desire a cumulative case will start to emerge.