John

These men, preserving the true tradition of the blessed teaching directly from Peter and James, from John and Paul, the holy apostles — son receiving from father (though few are like their fathers) — came, by God's will, down even to us, to deposit those ancestral and apostolic seeds.

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

"And if we say," says John in his epistle, "that we have communion with Him"—that is, with God—"and walk in darkness, we lie and do not do the truth;

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.

For even though Marcion rejects his Apocalypse, yet the order of bishops, traced back to its origin, will stand upon John as author.

In short, John and Matthew instil faith into us from the apostles, Luke and Mark renew it from the apostolic men — beginning from the same rules, so far as concerns the one God the Creator, and his Christ, born of a virgin, the supplement of the law and the prophets.

For God, says the evangelist and theologian, no one has ever seen;

3. I shall by no means pass over in silence an edifying narrative that has come down to me; one that devout men of the inner country of the Ethiopians — those whom our account knows to call Indians — recounted to me, having translated it without falsehood from trustworthy records. It runs as follows.

— which my own theologian showed me in a few words.

So John, become in the Spirit of God, beheld the souls of the martyrs.

For since we acknowledge spiritual gifts, after John too we have deserved to attain to prophecy.

‘You are of the devil your father.

To Macarius and John

one, that John the Baptist said, "He who has two coats, let him share with him who has none";

that John, the reprover of adultery, was beheaded;

The law and the prophets were until John the Baptist.

For the same John was called not only the angel of Christ, but also a lamp shining before Christ.

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

From the epistle of John too they pluck at once.

For there is extant also the writing of Barnabas, entitled "to the Hebrews" — a man sufficiently authorized by God, as one whom Paul set beside himself in the tenor of abstinence:

that voice too was a forerunner of the Lord, bringing good tidings to a barren woman, as John brought them to the wilderness.

" John is the forerunner, and the voice is the forerunner of the Word — a voice of consolation, preparing the way for salvation, a voice exhorting men to the inheritance of the heavens;

but to those who disobey and wander in heart, and have not known the ways of the Lord, which John commanded to make straight and prepare, with these God is grieved and threatens.

" How these things were said, the evangelist — and surely so dear a disciple, John, rather than Praxeas — knew;

" 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.

For just as, when John says, "The Word was made flesh," we understand the Spirit too in the mention of the Word, so here too we acknowledge the Word in the name of Spirit.

For He who set before the sight souls as yet alone, of the martyrs, resting under the altar, could surely also have shown them rising again to the eyes without flesh.

"And God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes" — surely from those same eyes which had before wept, and which could still weep, did not the divine indulgence dry up every shower of tears.

For although soldiers had come to John and received the form of observance, although even a centurion had believed, the Lord afterwards, in disarming Peter, ungirded every soldier.

since he judges murder even in a word of cursing or reviling, and in every onset of anger, and in the neglect of love toward a brother—even as John teaches that he is a murderer who hates his brother.

But this our father Isaac, the monogamist, will now no longer judge—nor any John, the eunuch of Christ, nor Judith the daughter of Merari, nor so many other examples of the saints.

For Elijah was no other than John, who came in the power and spirit of Elijah—whereas that "man, a glutton and a wine-bibber," a frequenter of dinners and suppers with publicans and sinners, dines once at one wedding, where, of course, many were marrying.

" John, indeed, exhorts us to lay down our lives even for the brethren, denying that there is fear in love.

He himself, the close of the law and the prophets, called not a prophet but an angel, is cut off by a contumelious slaughter, as the fee for a dancing-girl.

A third arguments is derived from the words of John the Baptist, who, at a time when many thousands of the Jews served in the Roman armies, as appears from the testimony of Josephus and others, being seriously asked by the soldiers, what they should do to avoid the wrath of God, did not command them to renounce their military calling, which he ought to have done, had it been inconsistent with the …

† The Norman princes, from William the Conqueror to John, I think without exception, bound themselves, and, in order to maintain their thrones, were obliged to bind themselves, to observe the ancient laws and customs, in other words, the “lex terræ,” or “common law” of the kingdom.

Therefore if Peter has for many years carried on a noisy business on his own land, and his neighbour John makes a new building on his own adjoining land, in the occupation whereof he finds the noise, vibration, or the like, caused by Peter’s business to be a nuisance, Peter cannot justify continuing his operations as against John by showing that before John’s building was occupied, John or his pre …

for so John was beforehand the forerunner of the Lord, preparing his ways.

and this is a proof brought forth against those who take from the apostles even John's baptism, that they may destroy the sacrament of water.

So thoroughly is this so, that afterwards in the Acts of the Apostles we find that those who had John's baptism had not received the Holy Spirit, whom they had not so much as heard of.

John too had taught his disciples to pray;

John does not keep silent, saying, Begin to repent, for now salvation shall draw near to the nations — namely the Lord, bringing it according to God's promise.

Did anything lie hid from John, most beloved of the Lord, reclining on his bosom, to whom alone the Lord pointed out Judas the betrayer beforehand, whom he commended in his own place as a son to Mary?

in 1200, Juliana, widow of John of Kilpec, accounts for 50 marks and a palfrey.