Aïa-so-Louk,[30] the modern name of Ephesus, appears to be derived from two Greek words which speak of St. John the divine, the theologian of the Church. As the memory of the Apostle haunts the city where he so long lived, even in its fall and long decay under its Turkish conquerors,--and the fatal spread of the malaria from the marshes of the Cayster--so a memory of the place seems to rest in turn upon the Epistle, and we read it more satisfactorily while we assign to it the origin attributed to it by Christian antiquity, and keep that memory before our minds. FOOTNOTES: [2] Cary's _Dante_, _Paradiso_, xxv. 117. Stanley's _Sermons and Essays on the Apostolic Age_, 242. [3] Apoc. ii. 24. [4] John xiii. 30 cf. 1 John ii, 11. [5] εσκηνωσεν εν ἡμιν. [6] This characteristic of St. John's style is powerfully expressed by the great hymn-writer of the Latin Church. "Hebet sensus exors styli; Stylo scribit tam subtili, Fide tam catholicâ, Ne de Verbo salutari Posset quicquam refragari Pravitas hæretica." _Adam of St. Victor, Seq._ xxxii. [7] John xii. 20-34, especially ver. 24. [8] Acts i. 13. [9] Acts iii. 4, v. 13, viii. 14. [10] Gal. ii. 9. [11] Acts iii. 4, iv. 13, viii. 14. The singular and interesting manuscript of Patmos (Αι περιοδοι του θεολογου) attributed to St. John's disciple, Prochorus, seems to recognise that St. John's chief mission was not that of working miracles. Even in a kind of duel of prodigies between him and the sinister magician of Patmos, the following occurs. "Kynops asked a young man in the multitude where his father then was. 'My father is dead,' he replied, 'he went down yonder in a storm.' Turning to John, the magician said,--'Now then, bring up this young man's father from the dead.' 'I have not come here,' answered the Apostle, 'to raise the dead, but to deliver the living from their errors.'" [12] Gal. ii. 9; Acts xxi. 17, _sqq._ [13] John xxi. 7. [14] Ibid., vers. 17, 18, 19. [15] The beginning of old age would account sufficiently for the anticipation of death in 2 Peter i. 13, 14, 15. [16] δοξασει ver. 19. The lifelike _shall_ (not _should_) is part of the many minute but vivid touches which make the whole of this scene so full of motion and reality--"I go a fishing" (ver. 3); "_about_ two hundred cubits" (ver. 8); the accurate αιγιαλος (ver. 4. See Trench, _On Parables_, 57; Stanley, _Apostolic Age_, 135). [17] διορατικωτερος. S. Joann. Chrysost.--_Hom. in Joann._ [18] _Euseb. H. E._, iii. 23. See other quotations in Bilson, _Government of Christ's Church_, p. 365. [19] _Ap. Euseb. H. E._, v. 20. [20] _Adv. Hæres._, lib. iii., ch. 1.