A vast literature has grown up around the Fourth Gospel. A full list of critical treatises on the Authorship, published between 1792 and 1875, is given by Dr. Caspar Gregory in an appendix to the translation of Luthardt’s St. Sohn, the Author of the Fourth Gospel. To this list may now be added Thoma, Die Genesis d. Fok. , Evang., 1882; Jacobsen, Untersuchungen uber ᾱ. Foh. Evang., 1884; Oscar Holtzmann, Das ¥oh. evangelium, 1887. The Introductions of H. Holtzmann, Weiss, Salmon, and Gloag may also be consulted. The fullest history of the criticism of the Gospel is to be found in Watkins’ Bampton Lectures for 1890.
Full lists of commentaries are given in the second volume of the translation ef Meyer on John, and in Luthardt. The most valuable are the following :—
Hgracrzon. The Fragments of Heracleon have been collected out of Origen’s Com- mentary on John, and edited for Armitage Robinson’s Tezts and Studies by A. E. Brooke, M.A.
Crugen. Commentary on St. Fohn’s Gospel ; originally only extending to the thirteenth chapter, and even of this original much has been lost. The best edition is that of A. E. Brooke, M.A., Cambridge University Press, 1806.
Portions of this Commentary are translated in the additional volume of Clark’s Ante-Nicene Library
CHRYSOSTOM [347-407 A.D.]. Homilies on the Gospel, etc. The most convenient edition is Migne’s. The Commentary on John is translated in the Ozford Library, and in the American Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.
AuGUSTINE [354-430]. Tractatus in ¥oan. Evan. In third volume of Migne’s edition ; translated in Oxford series and Clark’s translation.
CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA [ob. 444]. In D. F$oannis Evangelium. Best edition by P, E. Pusey, A.M., Clarendon Press. Three vols. 1872.
THEOPHYLACT and EuTHyMius (see p. 58) both wrote on this Gospel. The com- mentary of the latter is especially excellent.
Among post-reformation works, the Paraphrases of Erasmus, the Commentary of Calvin, and the Annotationes Majores .of Beza are to be recommended. The Annotationes of Melanchthon are frequently irrelevant. Besides the collections of illustrative passages mentioned on pp. 58, 59, and the commentaries of Grotius, Bengel, and others which cover the whole New Testament, there may be named the following which deal especially with this Gospel: Lampe, Com. Analytico- Exegeticus, 3 vols., 4to, Amstel., 1724, an inexhaustible mine. More recent com- mentaries are those of Liicke, 1820-24 ; Tholuck, 1827 [translated in Clark’s F. T. Lib., 1860]; Meyer, 1834 [translated 1875], edited by Weiss, 1893; Luthardt, 1852-3 [translated in CJark’s F. T. Lib., 1876], Alford, 1849; 4th edition, 1859; Godet, 1864-5 [translated in Clark’s F. T. L., 1876-7], Westcott, 1882; Reith, in Clark’s Hand-books for Bible-classes ; Whitelaw, 1888; Reynolds, in Pulpit Com., 1888 ; Watkins, in Ellicott’s Com., n. d.; Holtzmann, in Hand-commeniar, 1890; Plummer, in Cambridge Greek Testament, 1893. In Oscar Holtzmann’s Das Fohannesevangelium untersucht und erklart, 1887, there are a hundred pages of sommentary.
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