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Commentaries on All the Letters of John, Commentaries on the General Epistles, Commentaries on All the Epistles, Commentaries on the Whole New Testament
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Commentaries 3
Early & Medieval 4
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Commentaries on 3 John 3
1500’s
Marlorate, Augustine – An Exposition of 3 John (d. 1560) 14 pp.
Marlorat (1506-1562) was reformed.
On his commentary on Matthew: ** – “Marlorate was an eminent French reformer, preacher and martyr. His commentaries contain the cream of the older writers, and are in much esteem, but are very rare. He wrote on the whole New Testament, but we have in English only the Gospels [2-3 John] and Jude [and Revelation 1 & 13].” – Spurgeon
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1600’s
Jones, William – A Commentary upon the Epistles of St. Paul to Philemon & to the Hebrews, together with a Compendious Explication of the Second & Third Epistles of St. John (1635)
Jones was reformed.
*** “Very lively, sprightly, colloquial lectures, by a Suffolk divine, who thinks the Brownists and Dissenters were not persecuted. “Christ was whipped, that was persecution; Christ whipped some out of the temple, that was no persecution.” Despite his intolerance he says some uncommonly racy things.” – Spurgeon
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1800’s
Cox, Samuel – St. John’s Letter to Gaius (1867) 24 pp.
Cox was an English non-conformist minister, baptist and later became a universalist (highly not recommended). He was an editor for the magazine, The Expositor.
*** “Such exposition as this adds interest to the epistles, and makes their writers live again before our eyes. Mr. Cox delivered this work in public on certain week evenings. Happy are the people who are thus instructed.” – Spurgeon
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The Early Church
Compilation
ed. Bray, Gerald – Commentary on 3 John in Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, Jude Pre Buy (IVP, 2000), pp. 239-44
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The Medieval Church
The Ordinary Gloss
The Glossa Ordinaria In English: the Epistles of St. John 1-3 ed. John D Litteral Ref Buy (2014) 140 pp.
Glossa Ordinaria on 3 John trans. Sarah Van Der Pas at Patristic Bible Commentary
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Individuals
Bede – Commentary on the Seven Catholic Epistles Ref (Cistercian Publications, 1985) 284 pp.
Bede (672/3 – 735)
Nicholas of Gorran – On 3 John at Patristic Bible Commentary
Nicholas (1232–1295), born in Gorron, France, was a prominent French, medieval preacher and scriptural commentator.
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