26-APPENDIX A RATIONALIST CRITICISM ON ST. . .

APPENDIX A RATIONALIST CRITICISM ON ST. JOHN’S WRITINGS The following table will illustrate the points of agreement arrived at by the more prominent Rationalist critics of the last sixty years:--

        THE GOSPEL.     1 JOHN.     2 AND 3 JOHN.     REVELATION.

F. C. Baur,     By a forger,         By a         By a             By St.

1847.         170 A.D.         second         third             John. forger.

                            forger.

Th. Keim,     By the same forger, ----                     Not by

1867.        100-117 A.D.                             St. John.

A. Hilgen- By a forger, All by a second forger, By St. John. feld, 1875. 120-140 A.D. 130 A.D.

E. Renan,     By the Presbyter John and others, who                 Not by St.

1879.         pretended that they were by St. John,                 John, but

        120 A.D.                             circulated by him.

C. Weizsäc- By a disciple Not by St. John nor by the Not by ker, 1886. of St. John. author of the Gospel. St. John.

A. Harnack,     The Gospel and Epistles all probably by             By the

1897.         the Presbyter John, who did not pretend             Presbyter

that they were by St. John, John, 80-110 A.D. 96 A.D.

A. C.         Uncertain.         By the         Uncertain.         Possibly

McGiffert,                 author                     by the

1897.                     of the                     Presbyter

                    Gospel. John.

B. W.         By an             All by another unknown         By St.

Bacon,         unknown         writer, A.D. 95-100 A.D.         John.

1900. writer, 100-110 A.D.

P. W.         Not by St.         By a         By a third         Possibly

Schmiedel,     John, nor         second         forger.             by the

1901.         by the             forger.                     Presbyter

        Presbyter.                             John.