Adam Clarke

Name: Commentary and critical notes on the Bible — 3 John
Author: Adam Clarke

Commentary and critical notes on the Bible… (1800s)

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“Commentary and critical notes on the Bible — 3 John”, published in 1800s, is a work by Adam Clarke. It explores elements such as Caius, epistle and Corinth.

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Adam Clarke, Commentary and critical notes on the Bible… (1800s)

“ Peace be to thee - Mayest thou possess every requisite good, both of a spiritual and temporal kind.
Our friends salute thee - Desire to be affectionately remembered to thee. Greet the friends by name - remember me to all those with whom I am acquainted, as if I had specified them by name. This is a proof to me that this epistle was not sent to Corinth, where it is not likely John ever was; and where it is not likely he had any particular acquaintances, unless we could suppose he had seen some of them when he was an exile in Patmos, an island in the Aegean Sea. ”

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Adam Clarke, Commentary and critical notes on the Bible… (1800s)

“ John is represented to be to travel, whether by land or water. If he went by land, he must traverse a great part of Asia, go through Thrace, Macedonia, Thessaly, and down through Greece, to the Morea, a most tedious and difficult journey. If he went by water, he must cross the Aegean Sea, and navigate among the Cyclades Islands, which was always a dangerous voyage. Now as the apostle promises, both in the second and in this epistle, to see the persons shortly to whom he wrote, I take it for granted that they could not have lived at Corinth, or anywhere in the vicinity of that city. ”

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Adam Clarke, Commentary and critical notes on the Bible… (1800s)

“ Do we suffer them to lack the bread that perisheth, while they minister to us with no sparing hand the bread of life? Let a certain class of religious people, who will find themselves out when they read this note, consider whether, when their preachers have ministered to them their certain or stated time, and are called to go and serve other Churches, they send them forth in a manner worthy of God, making a reasonable provision for the journey which they are obliged to take. ”

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Adam Clarke, Commentary and critical notes on the Bible… (1800s)

“ Thou hast acted as the faith - the Christian religion, required thee to act, in all that thou hast done, both to the brethren at home, and to the strangers - the itinerant evangelists, who, in the course of their travels, have called at thy house. ”

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Adam Clarke, Commentary and critical notes on the Bible… (1800s)

“ For whatever profession any man may make, it will ever appear that he who doeth good is of God - he alone is the person who uses rightly the grace received from God, and he alone shall enjoy the Divine approbation ”

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Adam Clarke, Commentary and critical notes on the Bible… (1800s)

“ While he that doeth evil - He who is unfeeling, unmerciful, unkind, hath not seen God - has no proper knowledge of that God whose Name is mercy, and whose Nature is love.
Verse 12
Demetrius hath good report - Perhaps another member of the Church where Caius was; or he might have been one of those whom the apostle recommends to Caius; or, possibly, the bearer of this letter from John to Caius. He seems to have been an excellent person: all testified of his righteousness; the truth - Christianity, itself bore testimony to him; and the apostles themselves added theirs also. ”

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Adam Clarke, Commentary and critical notes on the Bible… (1800s)

“ If I come, I will remember - I will show him the authority which, as an apostle of Jesus Christ, I possess.
Prating against us - Diotrephes might have been a converted Jew, who was unwilling that the Gentiles should be received into the Church; or a Judaizing Christian, who wished to incorporate the law with the Gospel, and calumniated the apostles who taught otherwise. This haughty and unfeeling man would give no countenance to the converted Gentiles ”

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Adam Clarke, Commentary and critical notes on the Bible… (1800s)

“ However, where there is no positive evidence, conjecture is useless.
Chapter 1 Introduction
The apostle's address to Caius, and his good wishes for his prosperity in body and soul, [1] , [2] . He commends him for his steadiness in the truth, and his general hospitality, especially to the itinerant evangelists, [3] . Speaks of the bad conduct of Diotrephes; his abuse of his power in the Church; and his slander of the apostles, [4] , [5] . Exhorts Caius to avoid his example, and to follow what is good, [6] . ”

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