6 Cf . Westcott on i^* (p. 126): "The thought is centered in the personal Being of the Son, and not in His generation. Christ is the One only Son." Meyer on i^* (p. 92) : " Movoy. designates the Logos as the only Son besides whom the Father has none." The same essen- tial sense is conveyed by the aYaT.rjToq employed in the Synoptists, possibly of God's witness to His Son at His baptism and transfigura- tion, and certainly in the parable of Mk \z^, Lk 20^^.
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narrative: and thus to set forth the aspect in which His life and work are here to be depicted.
The key-note of the Gospel having been thus set,
however, John, so soon as the prologue is over and he
takes up the narrative proper, leaves
Jesus' Narrative , I'li- ,• it-jl- j
Name in John ^^^^^ "^S^ designations behind him and prosecutes his narrative, like the other evangelists, by means of the simple designation 'Jesus.' As truly to John as to the Synoptists, thus, the narra- tive name of our Lord is the simple ' Jesus,' which occurs nearly 250 times. It is varied in the narra- tive only by a very occasional use of ' the Lord ' in its stead (4^ 6-^ ii^ 20-*^ ii^'^^'^"-) . No other desig- nation is employed by John himself outside the pro- logue, except in the closing verse of the narrative proper (20^^) , where he declares that he has written to the end that it might be believed that ' Jesus ' — the ' Jesus ' of whom he had so currently spoken — is ' the Christ, the Son of God.' It Is possible, no doubt, to take the * Jesus Christ' of 17" as a parenthetical Insertion from his hand, and to assign to him the paragraph 3^^"^*, In which Jesus is spoken of as ' the Son,' God's ' only begotten Son,' ' the only begotten Son of God.' But these exceptions, even if they be all allowed, only slightly break in upon the habitual usage by which John speaks of our Lord simply as ' Jesus,' varied occasion- ally to ' the Lord.' They would merely bear witness to the fact that the high reverence to the person of our Lord manifested In the designations of the pro- logue continues to condition the thought of the writer throughout, and occasionally manifests itself In the ap- pearance of similarly lofty designations In the narrative. As In the other evangelists, further, the simple
i8o The Designations of Our Lord
' Jesus ' Is reserved for the narrative name, and is
placed on the lips of no one of the speak- Jesus' Popular , . • t • i
Designations ^^^ ^"° appear in its course. It is made
clear, however, that it was by this name that our Lord was known to His contemporaries, and He is accordingly distinguished by those who speak of Him as " the man that is called Jesus " (9^^), " Jesus, the Son of Joseph" (6^-), "Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph" (i^^), or the simple "Jesus of Nazareth " (iS^'"^ 19^*^) • In the reports of remarks about Him the simple demonstrative pronoun indeed is sometimes made to do duty as the only designation needed, occasionally, possibly, with an accent of con- tempt (6^-'^-'^- 7^^'^^ gi6,[24] jg3o)^ byj. ordinarily merely desienatorilv (12.30,33,34 ^26 .29,42 ^14,46, [so.ss] -25,26,31,40,41,46 ^33 jj37,37,47^^ p^^^ sometimes He is represented as spoken of merely as "this man" (dudpcoTzoc, 9^^-^* 11*' i8^'^'-^), or indeed simply as a man (avijp, i^ only;
dvOpOiTZO^, 429 5I2 fQAm [840 ^11.16,16,24 jo33-| ^47,50 J 814.17.29 J ^5)^
In the narrative of John our Lord is represented as customarily addressed by His followers, as He Him-
self informs us (13^^'^^), as 'Teacher' Address (dcddaxaXsi) and 'Lord' {x'jpee ) ^ the
correlatives of which are ' disciples ' {(xadrjrai passim) and ' servants,' that is ' slaves ' {douXoc^ J3I6 1^15.20)^ -pj^g 3^^y^i formula 'Teacher,' how- ever, occurs very rarely (i^^ 20^^ in 11^^ it is an ap- pellative, implying Its use in address; cf. 3^ 13^^'^^), although its place is in part supplied by the compara- tively frequent Aramaic form 'Rabbi' (i38.49 ^2 ^31 6^^ 9^ 11^; used of John the Baptist, 3-^), varied on one occasion to ' Rabboni ' (20^^). The most common
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honorific form of address Is ' Lord' (4».i549,49 ^7 ^z^,m
q36,3S j j 3,12,21,27,32,34,39 j ^6,9,25,36,37 j .5,8,22 ^20^^! 21^^'^°'^^*