The New Daily Study Bible: The Letters of John and Jude

by William Barclay

Publisher:

Westminster John Knox

, 2002

Overview

The letters of John and Jude deal with heretical teachings within the early Church. In 1 John the problem was Gnosticism—a view that the material world is evil—and according to Barclay, a view that still infects the thinking of some of today's Christians. Second and 3 John contain warnings against visiting preachers who taught false doctrines and against other individuals who attacked the writer's authority. Jude indicts those individuals of loose morals, or antinomians, who had assimilated themselves into the Christian community.

Key Features

• Insightful devotional and commentary on the New Testament
• Wisdom and biblical knowledge from well-loved theologian William Barclay

Product Details

• Title: The New Daily Study Bible: The Letters of John and Jude
• Author: William Barclay
• Series: The New Daily Study Bible: New Testament (DSB)
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Pages: 236

About William Barclay

William Barclay (1907-1978) was a world-renowned New Testament interpreter and Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at Glasgow University in Scotland. Having written more than fifty books, he is probably best known as the author of The Daily Study Bible series.

Contents

Top Highlights

“C. H. Dodd writes: ‘Prayer rightly considered is not a device for employing the resources of omnipotence to fulfil our own desires, but a means by which our desires may be redirected according to the mind of God, and made into channels for the forces of his will.’” (Page 130)

“Its basis is the conviction that all matter is evil and that spirit alone is good, and that the one real aim in life is to liberate the human spirit from the vile prison house of the body.” (Page 6)

“It is by love that God is known (verse 12). We cannot see God, because he is spirit; what we can see is his effect. We cannot see the wind, but we can see what it can do. We cannot see electricity, but we can see the effect it produces. The effect of God is love. It is when God comes into an individual that that person is clothed with the love of God and the love of other people. God is known by his effect on that individual. It has been said that ‘a saint is someone in whom Christ lives again’; and the best demonstration of God comes not from argument but from a life of love.” (Page 110)

“C. H. Dodd says: ‘To know God is to experience his love in Christ, and to return that love in obedience.’” (Page 48)

“The darkness stands for the chaos of life without God” (Page 30)

Product Details

• Title: The Letters of John and Jude
• Author: William Barclay
• Edition: 3rd ed.
• Series: The New Daily Study Bible
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox
• Print Publication Date: 2002
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Era: era:modern
• 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. 1 John › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. 2 John › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. 3 John › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780664225575, 0664225578
• Resource ID: LLS:NDSB83JN
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-30T23:39:58Z

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.