Notes

2. Ibid., IV

3. Ibid., IV

4. Ibid., II

5. Ibid., I

6. Warren Baker, general editor, The Complete Word Study Old Testament (Chattanooga, Tenn.: AMG Publishers, 1994)

7. Trent Butler et al, editors, Holman Bible Dictionary (Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers, 1991)

8. Baker

9. Baker

10. Baker

11. James Strong, Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1982)

12. Butler et al

13. Baker

14. Baker

15. Butler et all

16. Baker

17. Butler et al

18. Baker

19. Baker

20. Baker

21. Butler et al

22. Butler et al

23. Baker

24. Baker

25. Baker

26. Baker

27. R. Alan Culpepper, John, Son of Zebedee (Minneapolis: First Fortress Press, 2000)

28. Matthew Henry, Matthew to John: Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible, vol. 5 (Grand Rapids: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1985)

29. Frank Gaebelein and J. D. Douglas, The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, vol. 8 (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing, 1984)

30. Colin Brown, The New International Dictionary of the New Testament Theology (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1986)

31. Beth Moore, Things Pondered: From the Heart of a Lesser Woman (Nashville: B&H Publishing Group, 1997)

32. Robert H. Stein, Jesus the Messiah: A Survey of the Life of Christ (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1996)

33. Ronald F. Youngblood and F. F. Bruce, eds. Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1999)

34. Dr. Chuck Lynch, I Should Forgive, But . . . (Nashville: Word, 1998)

35. Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible (New York: Fleming H. Revell)

36. Francis Frangipane, Exposing the Accuser of the Brethren (Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Arrow Publications, 1991)

37. Spiros Zodhiates, ed. The Hebrew-Greek Key Study Bible (Chattanooga, Tenn.: AMG Publishers, 1966)

38. Jim Cymbala, Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1997)

39. Kevin Howard and Marvin Rosenthal, The Feasts of the Lord (Orlando, Fla.: Zion’s Hope, Inc., 1997)

40. Ibid.

41. Frank E. Gaebelein, ed. The Expositor’s Bible Commentary (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1984)

42. Spiros Zodhiates, The Complete Word Study Dictionary; New Testament (Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, 1994), #5485

43. Augustine, Confessions, trans. R. S. Pine-Coffin (New York: Penguin Books, 1961).

44. Jonathan Edwards, “The End for Which God Created the World,” The Works of Jonathan Edwards (New York: Yale University Press)

45. C. S. Lewis, The Weight of His Glory and Other Addresses (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1965).

46. The Worldbook Encyclopedia 2001, vol. 8 (Chicago: World Book Inc., 2001), 8–8a.

47. John Piper, The Dangerous Duty of Delight (Sisters, OR: Multnomah Publishers, 2001)

48. Andreas J. Köstenberger, Encountering John (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999)

49. Eusebius, quoted in Köstenberger, Encountering John

50. Augustine, quoted in Köstenberger, Encountering John

51. Spiros Zodhiates, “Lexical Aids to the Old Testament,” #344 in Spiros Zodhiates, Warren Baker, and David Kemp, Hebrew-Greek Key Study Bible (Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, 1996)

52. F. B. Meyer, Paul, A Servant of Jesus Christ (Fort Washington, Penn.: Christian Literature Crusade, 1995)

53. Ernle Bradford, Paul the Traveller (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993)

54. Ibid.

55. James Stalker, The Two St. Johns of the New Testament (New York: American Tract Society, 1895)

56. Cited in Joan Comay, Who’s Who in the Old Testament (Crown Publishers, 1980)

57. Patrick Johnstone, Operation World (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, 1993)

58. Butler, et al.

59. Bradford

60. John F. Walvoord and Roy B. Zuck, eds., The Bible Knowledge Commentary New Testament (Wheaton, Ill.: Victor Books, 1983)

61. Ibid.

62. Ibid.

63. Ibid.

64. Robert Graves, The Twelve Caesars (New York: Penguin Books, 1957)

65. Ibid.

66. Ibid.

67. John Foxe, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (New Kensington, Penn.: Whitaker House, 1981)

68. Zodhiates, “Lexical Aids to the Old Testament,” #344 in Zodhiates, Baker, and Kemp, Hebrew-Greek Key Study Bible

69. Zodhiates, The Complete Word Study Dictionary; New Testament, #3674

70. Ibid., #3670

71. Lynn M. Poland, “The New Criticism, Neoorthodoxy, and the New Testament,” quoted in Culpepper, John, Son of Zebedee

72. “John, A Last Word on Love,” Biblical Illustrator, Summer 1976

73. Tertullian, On Prescription Against Heretics, as quoted in Culpepper, John, Son of Zebedee

74. Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest (New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1963)

75. Zodhiates, “Lexical Aids to the New Testament” #918 in Zodhiates, Baker, and Kemp, Hebrew-Greek Key Study Bible

76. E. Glen Hinson, “Smyrna,” Biblical Illustrator, Winter 1980, 72

77. Youngblood and Bruce, Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 1187.

78. Taken from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs by John Foxe, chapter 2, www.biblenet.net/library/foxesMartyrs.

79. A. T. Robertson, Word Pictures in the New Testament, vol. 5 (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1960)

80. William Barclay, Letters to the Seven Churches (New York: Abingdon, 1957), quoted in Expositor’s

81. Henry L. Peterson, “The Church at Laodicea,” Biblical Illustrator, Spring 1982, 74–75.