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title: "Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible · Volume 2: Lamentations to Revelation"
author: "Adam Clarke"
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section: 724 of 769
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cite: "Adam Clarke, Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible · Volume 2: Lamentations to Revelation, section 724. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/adam-clarke-commentary-volume-2-lamentations-to-revelation/724/"
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# Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible · Volume 2: Lamentations to Revelation

*Adam Clarke*

Clarke's learned notes on the Hebrew and Greek, verse by verse, from Genesis to Revelation: volume 2 of 2.

## 724. 1 John · 10 of 10

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[¶0] The end of the Epistle of the Apostle John. - Syriac.

[¶1] The First Epistle of John the apostle is ended. - Syr. Philoxenian.

[¶2] Nothing in either the Coptic or Vulgate.

[¶3] Continual and eternal praise be to God! - Arabic.

[¶4] The end. - Aethiopic;

[¶5] In this version the epistle is thus introduced: -

[¶6] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, the Epistle of John, the son of Zebedee, the evangelist and apostle of our Lord Jesus Christ; may his intercession be with us for ever and ever! Amen.

[¶7] In the Manuscripts: -

[¶8] The First of John. - AB.

[¶9] The First Epistle of John the evangelist.

[¶10] The First catholic Epistle of St. John the divine, written from Ephesus.

[¶11] The Epistle to the Parthians. - See several Latin MSS.

[¶12] The word amen is wanting in all the best MSS. and in most of the versions.

[¶13] For other matters relative to the epistle itself see the preface: and for its heavenly doctrine and unction read the text, in the original if you can; if not, in our own excellent translation.