1 John, cited

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1. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 4 authority 4 citations · 6 passages

   book 2 · book 3 4 passages anchored here · book 4

   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. Adversus Praxean Tertullian 2 authority 2 citations

   adversus praxean 2 passages anchored here

   1 John is directly quoted as apostolic testimony.

   "What we have seen," says John, "what we have heard, with our eyes we have seen, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life.

5. De Pudicitia Tertullian 2 authority 2 citations

   de pudicitia 2 passages anchored here

   Directly quoted to establish the sin taxonomy.

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

6. 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?

7. 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.

8. De Fuga in Persecutione Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   de fuga in persecutione

   Directly quotes Johannine teaching on love, fear, and laying down one's life, attributed explicitly to John.

   Likewise John teaches that our lives are to be laid down even for the brethren, much more for the Lord.

9. 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.

10. Scorpiace Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

    scorpiace

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

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