New Daily Study Bible: The Letters of John and Jude. William Barclay

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       The Marks of the Children of God (3:10–18)

       The World’s Resentment of the Christian Way (3:10–18) (contd)

       The Only Test (3:19–24a)

       The Inseparable Commands (3:19–24a) (contd)

       The Perils of the Surging Life of the Spirit (3:24b–4:1)

       The Ultimate Heresy (4:2–3)

       The Split between the World and God (4:4–6)

       Love Human and Divine (4:7–21)

       God is Love (4:7–21) (contd)

       Son of God and Saviour (4:7–21) (contd)

       Love within the Divine Family (5:1–2)

       The Necessary Obedience (5:3–4a)

       The Conquest of the World (5:4b–5)

       The Water and the Blood (5:6–8)

       The Triple Witness (5:6–8) (contd)

       The Undeniable Witness (5:9–10)

       The Essence of the Faith (5:11–13)

       The Basis and the Principle of Prayer (5:14–15)

       Praying for Those who Sin (5:16–17)

       Sin whose End is Death (5:16–17) (contd)

       The Essence of Sin (5:16–17) (contd)

       The Threefold Certainty (5:18–20)

       The Constant Peril (5:21)

       Introduction to the Second and Third Letters of John

      2 JOHN

       The Elect Lady (1–3)

       Love and Truth (1–3) (contd)

       Trouble and Cure (4–6)

       The Threatening Peril (7–9)

       No Compromise (10–13)

      3 JOHN

       The Teacher’s Joy (1–4)

       Christian Hospitality (5–8)

       The Christian Adventurers (5–8) (contd)

       Love’s Appeal (9–15)

      JUDE

       Introduction to the Letter of Jude

       What it Means to be a Christian (1–2)

       The Call of God (1–2) (contd)

       Defending the Faith (3)

       The Peril from Within (4)

       The Dreadful Examples (5–7)

       1. The Fate of Israel

       2. The Fate of the Angels

       3. Sodom and Gomorrah

       Contempt for the Angels (8–9)

       The Gospel of the Flesh (10)

       Lessons from History (11)

       A Picture of the Wicked (12–16)

       The Selfishness of the Wicked (12–16) (contd)

       The Fate of Disobedience (12–16) (contd)

       The Characteristics of Those who are Evil (12–16) (contd)

       The Characteristics of Error (1) (17–19)

       The Characteristics of Error (2) (17–19) (contd)

       The Characteristics of Goodness (20–1)

       Reclaiming the Lost (22–3)

       The Final Ascription of Praise (24–5)

       SERIES FOREWORD

      (by Ronnie Barclay)

      My father always had a great love for the English language and its literature. As a student at the University of Glasgow, he won a prize in the English class – and I have no doubt that he could have become a Professor of English instead of Divinity and Biblical Criticism. In a pre-computer age, he had a mind like a computer that could store vast numbers of quotations, illustrations, anecdotes and allusions; and, more remarkably still, he could retrieve them at will. The editor of this revision has, where necessary, corrected and attributed the vast majority of these quotations with considerable skill and has enhanced our pleasure as we read quotations from Plato to T. S. Eliot.

      There is another very welcome improvement in the new text. My mother was one of five sisters, and my grandmother was a commanding figure as the Presbyterian minister’s wife in a small village in Ayrshire in Scotland. She ran that small community very efficiently, and I always felt that my father, surrounded by so many women, was more than somewhat overawed by it all! I am sure that this is the reason why his use of English tended to be dominated by the words ‘man’, ‘men’ and so on, with the result that it sounded very male-orientated. Once again, the editor has very skilfully improved my father’s English and made the text much more readable for all of us by amending the often one-sided language.

      It is a well-known fact that William Barclay wrote at break-neck speed and never corrected anything once it was on paper – he took great pride in mentioning this at every possible opportunity! This revision, in removing repetition and correcting the inevitable errors that had slipped through, has produced a text free from all the tell-tale signs of very rapid writing. It is with great pleasure that I commend this revision to readers old and new in the certainty that William Barclay speaks even more clearly to us all with his wonderful appeal in this new version of his much-loved Daily Study Bible.

      Ronnie Barclay

      Bedfordshire

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