ON SIMILE AND METAPHOR IN THE FOURTH GOSPEL. 



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Pages 101, 102. — I cannot accept the words metaphorical and 

 figurative as synonyms. A metaphor is something taken out of one 

 sphere and transferred to another. A figure is a representation in 

 another shape of something within the same sphere. 



Page 102.— I must think that " born from above " is the proper 

 translation of avwOev, 



Page 107. — 1 must think that ftjucais means the act of eating, ftfnc^a 

 would he food. 



Page 111. — I cannot accept the statement that St. John is a mystic. 

 Many of my brethren seem to think that anyone who has an inner 

 life is a mystic. I should despair of most Christians were this the fact ; 

 but a mystic is one in whom the inner life takes an abnormal shape. 



I must not be taken as disapproving of the paper because I 

 occasionally criticise it. 1 think it a very valuable paper indeed. 



I should like, in conclusion, to say, and it will, I think, have the 

 support of the writer of the paper, that my study of the First Epistle 

 of the Beloved Apostle has confirmed my belief that the Gospel, 

 the Epistle and the Apocalypse can have but one author. I think 

 but little of the objections raised against this. They are generally 

 very one-sided. Even those of Dionysius of Alexandria, a very 

 weighty, because so early, an authority, seem very external. But 

 the use of such words as " Logos," naprvpU and its compounds, 

 often translated record and hare record in our version, ^wrj ; 0^9 ; 

 7rafj(iK\i]Tot ; overcometh, St. John strikes the key-note (ch. xvi. 33) 

 with the speech of the Master, " 1 have overcome the world." It 

 occurs six times in the Epistle and sixteen times in the Revelation. 

 Another phrase common to the three is living ivaters, or waters of 

 life. Here again the key-note is in St. John, who repeats his Master's 

 words. (See ch. iv. 10 ; also see ch. iii ; vii. 30 ; xix. 34, 35. Cf, 

 1 John V. 6, 8 ; Rev. vii. 17 ; xxi. 6 ; xxii. 17.) Many other pieces 

 of evidence may fall to the lot of the careful student. They will be 

 the more valuable in that they are not upon the surface. 



Mr. J. C. Dick, M.A., writes : On p. 99 of Professor Geden's paper 

 there is a reservation respecting a portion of ch. xxiv of the Gospel. 

 There does not seem to be any reason for the reservation on the 

 ground of either external or internal evidence. As to the former, 

 the fact that the entire Gospel as we now have it, including this 

 portion, is comprised in every manuscript and everv version, leaves 



