Gerard S. Sloyan - John (Interpretation, a Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching)
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INTERPRETATION A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching
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INTERPRETATION A BIBLE COMMENTARY FOR TEACHING AND PREACHING
James Luther Mays, Editor Patrick D. Miller, Jr., Old Testament Editor Paul J. Achtemeier, New Testament Editor
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John
Gerard S. Sloyan
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Scripture quotations are from the Revised Standard Version of the Holy Bible, copyright, 1946, 1952, and 1971, 1973 by the Division of Christian Education, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. and used by permission.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sloyan, Gerard Stephen. John. (Interpretation, a Bible commentary for teaching and preaching) Bibliography: p. 1. Bible. N.T. JohnCommentaries. I. Title. II. Series. BS2615.3.S56 1988 226'.507 87-45549 ISBN 0-8042-3125-7
copyright John Knox Press 1988 10 9 8 Printed in the United States of America John Knox Press Atlanta, Georgia 30365
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SERIES PREFACE
This series of commentaries offers an interpretation of the books of the Bible. It is designed to meet the need of students, teachers, ministers, and priests for a contemporary expository commentary. These volumes will not replace the historical critical commentary or homiletical aids to preaching. The purpose of this series is rather to provide a third kind of resource, a commentary which presents the integrated result of historical and theological work with the biblical text.
An interpretation in the full sense of the term involves a text, an interpreter, and someone for whom the interpretation is made. Here, the text is what stands written in the Bible in its full identity as literature from the time of "the prophets and apostles," the literature which is read to inform, inspire, and guide the life of faith. The interpreters are scholars who seek to create an interpretation which is both faithful to the text and useful to the church. The series is written for those who teach, preach, and study the Bible in the community of faith.
The comment generally takes the form of expository essays. It is planned and written in the light of the needs and questions which arise in the use of the Bible as Holy Scripture. The insights and results of contemporary scholarly research are used for the sake of the exposition. The commentators write as exegetes and theologians. The task which they undertake is both to deal with what the texts say and to discern their meaning for faith and life. The exposition is the unified work of one interpreter.
The text on which the comment is based is the Revised Standard Version of the Bible. The general availability of this translation makes the printing of a translation unnecessary and saves the space for comment. The text is divided into sections appropriate to the particular book; comment deals with passages as a whole, rather than proceeding word by word, or verse by verse.
Writers have planned their volumes in light of the requirements set by the exposition of the book assigned to them. Biblical books differ in character, content, and arrangement. They also differ in the way they have been and are used in the liturgy,
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thought, and devotion of the church. The distinctiveness and use of particular books have been taken into account in decisions about the approach, emphasis, and use of space in the commentaries. The goal has been to allow writers to develop the format which provides for the best presentation of their interpretation.
The result, writers and editors hope, is a commentary which both explains and applies, an interpretation which deals with both the meaning and the significance of biblical texts. Each commentary reflects, of course, the writer's own approach and perception of the church and world. It could and should not be otherwise. Every interpretation of any kind is individual in that sense; it is one reading of the text. But all who work at the interpretation of Scripture in the church need the help and stimulation of a colleague's reading and understanding of the text. If these volumes serve and encourage interpretation in that way, their preparation and publication will realize their purpose.
THE EDITORS
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PREFACE
The commentary on the Fourth Gospel that follows in these pages lays no claim to novelty or exhaustive treatment. It is not exegetical except in a general expository sense. That is to say, it does not presume (or attempt to supply) the knowledge of Hellenistic or "common" (koine) Greek vocabulary and syntax required to follow a philological or grammatical argumentalthough at times one or another such argument may be alluded to. Some users of this book may know the Greek text of John well; others may once have been familiar with it as a student's exercise. Sufficient numbers, however, will be unfamiliar with the original language in its nuances or indeed at all that the insertion of words and phrases in Greek may be an intrusion or frustration.
Neither will this commentary contain textual study of the sort in which the case is made for the author's preferred reading. Here, again, a layperson's knowledge of the problems of text transmission will suffice. The settlements opted for in the twenty-sixth, most recent edition of the Nestle-Aland
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