§ 1. Grammatical differences, p. xxix.
§ 2. Differences in diction, p. xxix sq.
§ 3. Different words and forms used by these writers to express the same idea,
pp. xxx sq.
§ 4. Words and phrases with one meaning in J^ap(1) and another in J, p. xxxi sq.
§ 5. Authors of J^ap and J were in some way connected with each other, pp. xxxii-xxxiv.
§ 6. J and 1. 2. 3 J by the same author, pp. xxxiv-xxxvii.
§ 7. The importance of these conclusions for Johannine criticism, p. xxxvii.

III. Authorship of the Johannine Writings. Evidence partly internal, but mainly external.

§ 1. J^ap not pseudonymous, but the work of John the Seer, p. xxxviii sq.
§ 2. The author of J^ap is distinct from the author of J, p. xxxix sq.
§ 3. There were two Johns according to Papias, the Apostle and the Elder, the latter being the author of J^ap according to Dionysius, p. xl sq.
§ 4. 1. 2. 3 J by the author of J, p. xli sq.
§ 5. If John the Elder is admitted to be the author of 2. 3 J, as is done by many competent scholars, then he is the author also of J and 1 J, pp. xlii-xliii.
§ 6. If John the Elder is the author of J and 1. 2. 3 J, is John the Apostle the author of J^ap? No. Its author claims to be a prophet, not an apostle. He was a Palestinian Jew who migrated late in life to Asia Minor, p. xliii sq.
§ 7. The silence of the writers of the first two centuries as to any residence of John the Apostle in Asia tells against his being author of J^ap, p. xlv.
§ 8. These conclusions confirmed by the tradition of John the Apostle's early martyrdom, which, if trustworthy, renders his authorship of J^ap or J, I. 2. 3 J impossible. That John the Apostle died a martyr's death before 70 A. D. is to be inferred on the following grounds:

Prophecy of Jesus to that effect, p. xlv sq.;
the Papias-tradition, p. xlvi;
the statements of certain ancient writers (145-344 A.D.), pp. xlvi-xlviii
the Syriac Martyrology and certain Church Calendars, pp. xlviii-l.

IV. The Editor of J^ap. The present order of 20⁴-22 could not possibly have originated with its author. Hence the necessary hypothesis of an editor, whose existence, though suggested occasionally by certain intrusions in the earlier chapters, was not demonstrable till 20⁴-22 was reached. The interpolations in 1-19, when restudied from the standpoint of this hypothesis, appear in a new light, and these combined with those in 20-22 make it an easy task to sketch the main lines of this editor's character. He was apparently a Jew of the dispersion, a better Grecian than his master, but otherwise a person profoundly stupid and ignorant; a narrow fanatic and celibate, not quite loyal to his trust as editor; an arch-heretic, though, owing to his stupidity, probably an unconscious one, pp. l-lv.

V. Depravation of the Text through

§ 1. Interpolations, pp. lvi-viii;
§ 2. Dislocations, pp. lviii-lx;
§ 3. Lacunae, p. lx sq.;
§ 4. Dittographs, p. lxi.

VI. Greek and Hebrew Sources, and their Dates, pp. lxii-lxv.

VII. Books of the O.T., of the Pseudepigrapha, and of the N.T. used by our author.

§ 1. General summary of the facts, p. lxv sq.
§ 2. John translated directly from the O.T., and did not quote any Greek version, though often influenced by the LXX (i.e. o' ) and another later version a revised form of o', which was subsequently revised and incorporated by Theodotion in his version (i.e. q'), pp. lxvi-lxviii.
§ 3. Passages based directly on the Hebrew of the O.T. (or the Aramaic of Daniel) ; these are hardly ever literal quotations, pp. lxviii-lxxvii.
§ 4. Passages based on the Hebrew of the O.T., or on the Aramaic of Daniel, but influenced, in some cases certainly, in others possibly, by o', p. lxxviii sq.
§ 5. Passages based on the Hebrew of the O.T. or on the Aramaic of Daniel, but influenced, in some cases certainly, in others probably, by a later form of o', which is preserved in q', p. lxxx sq.
§ 6. Phrases and clauses in our author which are echoes of O.T. passages, p. lxxxi sq.
§ 7. Passages dependent on or parallel with passages in the Pseudepigrapha, p. lxxxii sq.
§ 8. Passages in some cases dependent on, and in other cases parallel with, earlier books of the N.T., pp. lxxxiii-lxxxvi.

VIII. Unity of J^ap.

§ 1. Unity of thought and dramatic development, lxxxvii sq.
§ 2. Unity of style and diction. Examples of unity of diction, lxxxviii sq.
§ 3. The unity in dramatic movement does not exclude the use of sources and earlier visions of his own. Some earlier visions and writings of his own re-edited. Generally their inclusion gives them a new meaning (footnote, p. lxxxix). Sources re-edited and incorporated, pp. lxxxix-xci.

IX. Date of J^ap.

§ 1. External evidence. The Trajanic, Claudian, and Neronic dates. The Domitianic date, pp. xci-xciii.
§ 2. Internal evidence.
(1) Such evidence exists alike for the Neronic, Vespasianic, and Domitianic dates.
(2) Evidence for the Domitianic which explains all the rest.

X. Circulation and reception.

§ 1. No certain trace of J^ap in the Apostolic Fathers, p. xcvii sq.
§ 2. In the 2nd cent. J^ap was all but universally accepted in Asia Minor, Western Syria, Africa, Rome, South Gaul, pp. xcviii c.
§ 3. Two protests against its Johannine authorship and validity in the 2nd cent.

Marcion.
The Alogi, p. c sq.

§ 4. Question of its authenticity reopened by Dionysius of Alexandria, p. ci.

§ 5. Rejected by the Syro-Palestinian Church and the Churches of Asia Minor.

§ 6. Ignored or unknown in the Eastern-Syrian and Armenian Churches for some centuries, p. ci sq.

§ 7. Always accepted in the West, gradually came to be acknowledged in the East, p. cii sq.

XI. Object of the Seer. His Methods Vision and Reflection or Reason.

§ 1. Object of the Seer, p. ciii sq.
§ 2. Methods of the Seer generally psychical experiences and reflection or reason -- Psychical experiences.

Dreams.
Dreams combined with translation of the spirit of the Seer.
Visions.

(a) Visions in sleep.
(b) Visions in a trance.
(g) Visions in which the spirit is translated.
(d) Waking visions, p. civ sq.

§ 3. Value of such experiences depends not on their actuality, but on their source, their moral environment and influence on character,

§ 4. Literal descriptions of such experiences hardly ever possible. Language of Seer symbolic, p. cvi sq.

§ 5. Highest form of spiritual experience, p, cvii.

§ 6. Reason embracing the powers of insight, imagination, and judgment. Its use

in the arrangement of his own materials,
in the construction of allegories,
in the adaptation of traditional material.
Conventional use of the phrase "I saw," pp. cvii-cix.

XII. Some doctrines of our author.

§ 1. Doctrine of God.
§ 2. Jesus Christ.

§ 3. The Spirit.

§ 4. Doctrine of Works.

§ 5. First Resurrection; Millennium and Second Resurrection; judgment, pp. cix-cxvii.

XIII. Grammar of the Apocalypse, pp. cxvii clix. For contents, see p. cxvii.

XIV. Relative Value of the Uncials.

§ 1. Relative values of the uncials provisionally arrived at, p. clx clxii.
§ 2. Absence of conflation from best uncials confirms result arrived at in § i, p. clxii sq.
§ 3. Readings of uncials taken singly and also in groups of two give further confirmation. Classification of uncials on the basis of the above data, pp. clxiii-clxv.
§ 4. Evidence of uncials taken in groups of three or more in chaps. 1-4, p. clxv sq.
§ 5. Character of the Latin and Syriac-Versions, and their classification, pp clxvi-clxix.
§ 6. Armenian, Bohairic, and Ethiopic Versions. Their classification, pp. clxix-clxxi.
§ 7. Relations of Bohairic, Sahidic, and Ethiopic Versions to each other, p. clxxi.
§ 8. Textual value of the uncials, pp. clxxi-clxxiii.
§ 9. Cursives collated for this edition, and their groupings, pp. clxxiii clxxvi.
§ 10. Origen's so-called text, p. clxxvi sq.
§ 11. Some account of the Versions, pp. clxxviii clxxxiii

XV. Methods of interpretation adopted in this Commentary.

§ 1. Contemporary-Historical.
§ 2. Eschatological.
§ 3. Chiliastic.
§ 4^a. Philological in earlier form.
§ 5. Literary-Critical, embracing

§ 6. Traditional-Historical.

§ 7. Religious-Historical.

§ 8. Philosophical.

§ 9. Psychological.

§ 4^b. Philological in later form, pp. clxxxiii-clxxxvu.

XVI. Bibliography-Commentaries, Studies Exegetical and Critical, Texts, Abbreviations, pp. clxxxvii-cxci.

Addenda et Corrigenda, p. cxcii.

Commentary on Chapters I.-XIII. and XIV. 12-13, 1-373.

1. J^ap = the Apocalypse, J the Gospel, 1 J the First Epistle, etc.