[35] 1 John i. 7, v. 6, 8. [36] See note A. at the end of this Discourse, which shows that there are, in truth, _four_ such summaries. [37] ὁ ακηκοαμεν. [38] ὁ εωρακαμεν τοις οφθαλμοις ἡμων. [39] John xx. 20. [40] ὁ εθεασαμεθα, 1 John i. 1. The same word is used in John i. 14. [41] John xix. 27 would express this in the most palpable form. But it is constantly understood through the Gospel. The tenacity of Doketic error is evident from the fact that Chrysostom, preaching at Antioch, speaks of it as a popular error in his day. A little later, orthodox ears were somewhat offended by some beautiful lines of a Greek sacred poet, too little known among us, who combines in a singular degree Roman gravity with Greek grace. St. Romanus (A.D. 491) represents our Lord as saying of the sinful woman who became a penitent, την βρεξασαν ιχνη ἁ ουκ ἑβρεξε βυθος ψιλοις τοτε τοις δακρυσιν. "Which with her tears, then pure, Wetted the feet the sea-depth wetted not." (_Spicil. Solesmen._ Edidit T. B. Pitra, _S. Romanus_, xvi. 13, _Cant. de Passione._ 120.) [42] 1 John i. 2. The Life with the Father = John i. 1, 14. The Life manifested = John i. 14 to end. [43] The A.V. (1 John v. 6-12) obscures this by a too great sensitiveness to monotony. The language of the verses is varied unfortunately by "bear record" (ver. 7), "hath testified" (ver. 9), "believeth not the record" (ver. 10), "this is the record" (ver. 11). [44] 1 John ii. 2-29, iii. 7, iv. 3, v. 20. [45] John xv. 26. [46] John xiv., xv., xvi., Cf. vii. 39. The witness of the Spirit in the Apostolic ministry will be found John xx. 22. [47] John i. 19. [48] John i. 16, 31, 33. [49] John ii. 9, iv. 46. [50] John iii. 5. [51] John iv. 5, 7, 11, 12, v. 1, 8, vi. 19, vii. 35, 37, ix. 7, xiii. 1, 14, xix. 34, xxi. 1, 8. In the other great Johannic book water is constantly mentioned. Apoc. vii. 7, xiv. 7, xvi. 5, xxi. 6, xxii. 1, xxii. 17. (Cf. the το ὑδωρ, Acts x. 47.) [52] John i. 19, 29, 32, 34, 35, 36, 41, 45, 47, xix. 27. [53] John xv. 27. [54] John iii. 2. The Baptist's final witness (iii. 25, 33, iv. 39, 42, v. 15, vi. 68, 69, vii. 46, xix. 4, 6). Note, too, the accentuation of the idea of _witness_ (John v. 31, 39). It is to be regretted that the R.V. also has sometimes obscured this important term by substituting a different English word, _e.g._, "the word of the woman who _testified_" (John iv. 39). [55] John viii. 18, xii. 28. [56] Ibid. viii. 17, 18. [57] Ibid. xv. 26. [58] Ibid. v. 39, 46, xix. 35, 36, 37. [59] Ibid. v. 36. [60] This sixth witness (1 John v. 10) exactly answers to John xx. 30, 31. [61] ὁ πιστευων εις τον υιον, κτλ (v. 10). The construction is different in the words which immediately follow (ὁ μη πιστευων τω θεγ), not even giving Him credence, not _believing Him_, much less _believing on Him_.