Daily Study Bible Series: The Letters of John and Jude (Revised Edition)

by William Barclay

Publisher:

Westminster John Knox

, 1976

Overview

Letters of John and Jude Of this series, William Barclay writes: The Daily Study Bible series has always had one aim—to convey the results of scholarship to the ordinary reader. A. S. Peake delighted in the saying that he was a "theological middleman," and I would be happy if the same could be said of me in regard to these volumes. And yet the primary aim of the series has never been academic. It could be summed up in the famous words of Richard of Chichester's prayer—to enable men and women "to know Jesus Christ more clearly, to love him more dearly, and to follow him more nearly." It is my prayer that God may continue to use The Daily Study Bible to enable men better to understand His word.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The Christian faith is something which must be defended. Every Christian must be its defender. If the Christian tradition comes down from generation to generation, each generation must hand it on uncorrupted and unperverted. There are times when that is difficult. The word Jude uses for to defend is epagonizesthai, which contains the root of our English word agony. The defence of the faith may well be a costly thing; but that defence is a duty which falls on every generation of the Church.” (Page 179)

“He tells of a certain Roger Ball who insinuated himself into the life of the congregation at Dublin” (Page 162)

“The trouble which First John seeks to combat did not come from men out to destroy the Christian faith but from men who thought they were improving it. It came from men whose aim was to make Christianity intellectually respectable. They knew the intellectual tendencies and currents of the day and felt that the time had come for Christianity to come to terms with secular philosophy and contemporary thought.” (Page 5)

“There is a paradox here. We cannot become like God unless we see him; and we cannot see him unless we are pure in heart, for only the pure in heart shall see God (Matthew 5:8). In order to see God, we need the purity which only he can give.” (Page 75)

“The Christian message can be summed up as having two great aims—love for men and love for God.” (Page 21)

Product Details

• Title: The Letters of John and Jude (Revised Edition)
• Author: William Barclay
• Series: Daily Study Bible Series
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox
• Print Publication Date: 1976
• Logos Release Date: 2001
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. N.T. Epistles of John › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. Jude › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. 2 John › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. 3 John › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. 1 John › Commentaries
• Resource ID: LLS:29.67.4
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T07:39:09Z

About William Barclay

William Barclay (5 December 1907–24 January 1978) was an author, radio and television presenter, Church of Scotland minister, and Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow.