Excerpt from The Johannine Writings and the Johannine Problem: An Aid to the Critical Study of the Bible as Literature This has therefore been a labor of love through many years. When mind and body have been wearied by other tasks, rest and refreshment have often been found by turning to this. It has furnished delightful occupation for many vacation days. Some parts of the text have entailed an amount of work so disproportionate to the visible results as to be incredible to any one who has never attempted a like venture - such as the investigation of the Johannine vocabularies. If an author could only be certain that the value of his results might be measured by what they have cost him in toil, with how light a heart could he send a child of his brain out into the world! But one may at least hope that he has done something, if only a little, to promote study and under standing of a vital part of the most vital of all books. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.