First Epistle of John

1. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 4 authority 4 citations · 5 passages

   book 2 · book 3 4 passages anchored here

   Explicitly attributed to John's 'greater Epistle,' matching the First Epistle of John.

   And John too, in the greater Epistle, plainly teaches the differences of sins in these words:

2. Barlaam and Josaphat John of Damascus 3 authority 3 citations

   chapter 2 · chapter 12 · chapter 37

   Three sayings on the world's transience are attributed to 'my own theologian', identified as John.

   and, 'The world is passing away, and the desire of it;

3. Adversus Marcionem Tertullian 2 authority 2 citations

   book 3 · book 5

   John's teaching is explicitly invoked to condemn the doctrine that Christ lacked true flesh.

   the half-baked and as it were abortive Marcionites, whom the apostle John pronounced antichrists, denying that Christ came in the flesh — yet not so as to establish the right of another god, for on that score too they would have been censured, but because they had presumed it incredible that God should be flesh.

4. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 9

   Explicitly cited by chapter and verse as an example of a distinctively Christian precept.

   Who for instance would say, that the Christian precept of laying down our lives for others was an obligation of the law of nature?

5. Adversus Praxean Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   adversus praxean

   Attributed to John and used as a defining doctrinal proof text.

   " And John marks as a liar even him who shall deny that Jesus is the Christ, but, on the contrary, as born of God everyone who shall believe that Jesus is the Christ.

6. De Carnis Resurrectione Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   de carnis resurrectione

   Explicitly attributed 'So John too' and quoted directly.

   "And it is not yet manifest," he says, "what we shall be.

7. De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 1

   Explicitly invoked as authoritative scriptural statement on apostasy.

   "They went forth from us," it says, "but they were not of us.

8. De Pudicitia Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   de pudicitia

   Directly quoted to establish the sin taxonomy.

   because he sins not unto death" — this will be remissible.

9. Scorpiace Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   locus not recovered

   John's epistle is quoted verbatim on love casting out fear and interpreted at length.

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