the Actual Struggle. Chaps. xviii., xix. [Unbelief
apparently victorious, faith scarcely saved.]

2. Actual Victory over Death. Chap. xx. [Faith proved
right, and unbelief condemned.]

THE EPILOGUE OR APPENDIX. Chap. xxi.

I.

_THE INCARNATION._

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things
were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that hath
been made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. And
the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it
not. There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. The same
came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all
might believe through him. He was not the light, but came that he
might bear witness of the light. There was the true light, even the
light which lighteth every man, coming into the world. He was in the
world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He
came unto His own, and they that were His own received Him not. But
as many as received Him, to them gave He the right to become
children of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were
born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of
man, but of God. And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and
we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father),
full of grace and truth. John beareth witness of Him, and crieth,
saying, This was He of whom I said, He that cometh after me is
preferred before me: for He was before me. For of His fulness we all
received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses; grace
and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man hath seen God at any time;
the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath
declared Him."--JOHN i. 1-18.

In this brief introduction to his Gospel John summarises its contents,
and presents an abstract of the history he is about to relate in detail.
That the Eternal Word, in whom was the life of all things, became flesh
and was manifested among men; that some ignored while others recognised
Him, that some received while others rejected Him,--this is what John
desires to exhibit at large in his Gospel, and this is what he summarily
states in this compact and pregnant introductory passage. He briefly
describes a Being whom he