Chief abbreviations

Alexander	Neil Alexander, The Epistles of John, Torch Bible Commentaries (SCM Press, 1962).
Alford	Henry Alford, Commentary on the Epistles of John in Alford’s Greek Testament (Rivingtons & Deighton & Bell, 31866).
AV	Authorized (King James) Version, 1611.
BAGD	A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, translated and adapted by W. F. Arndt and F. W. Gingrich; second edition revised and augmented by F. W. Gingrich and F. W. Danker (University of Chicago Press, 1979).
Barclay	William Barclay, The Letters of John and Jude, The Daily Study Bible (St Andrew Press, 1976).
Blaiklock	E. M. Blaiklock, Faith is the Victory: Devotional Studies in the First Epistle of John (The Paternoster Press, 1959).
Brooke	A. E. Brooke, Commentary on the Johannine Epistles, The International Critical Commentary (T. & T. Clark, 1912).
Brown	Raymond E. Brown, The Community of the Beloved
(Community)	Disciple (Geoffrey Chapman, 1979).
Brown	Raymond E. Brown, The Epistles of John, The Anchor
(Epistles)	Bible (Doubleday, 1982; Geoffrey Chapman, 1983).
Bruce	F. F. Bruce, The Epistles of John (1970; Pickering & Inglis, 21978).
Calvin	John Calvin, Commentary on the First Epistle of John, Calvin’s Commentaries, ET by T. H. L. Parker (Oliver & Boyd, 1961).
Candlish	Robert S. Candlish, The First Epistle of St John Expounded in a Series of Lectures (1877; Banner of Truth, 1973).
Dodd	C. H. Dodd, Commentary on the Johannine Epistles, Moffatt New Testament Commentary (Hodder & Stoughton, 1946).
Ebrard	John H. A. Ebrard, Commentary on St John’s Epistles (T. & T. Clark, 1860).
Ellis	E. Earle Ellis, The World of St John (Eerdmans, 1984).
Eusebius	Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History, circa 260-340, ET, with introduction and notes, by H. J. Lawler and J. E. L. Oulton (SPCK, 1927–28; two vols.).
Findlay	George G. Findlay, Fellowship in the Life Eternal: An Exposition of the Epistles of John (Hodder & Stoughton, 1909).
Grayston	Kenneth Grayston, The Johannine Epistles, New Century Bible Commentary (Eerdmans/Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1984).
Grimm-	C. L. W. Grimm, Greek Lexicon of the New Testament,
Thayer	translated, revised and enlarged by J. H. Thayer (T. & T. Clark, 41901).
Houlden	James L. Houlden, A Commentary on the Johannine Epistles, Black’s New Testament Commentary (A. & C. Black, 1973).
Law	Robert Law, The Tests of Life: A Study of the First Epistle of St John (1909; Baker, 1968).
Lewis	G. P. Lewis, The Johannine Epistles, Epworth Preacher’s Commentaries (Epworth Press, 1961).
Lightfoot	J. B. Lightfoot, Biblical Essays (Macmillan, 1893).
LSJ	A Greek-English Lexicon, compiled by H. G. Liddell and R. Scott, new edition revised by H. S. Jones and R. Mackenzie (Oxford University Press, 91940).
Marshall	I. Howard Marshall, The Epistles of John, The New International Commentary on the New Testament (Eerdmans, 1978).
Metzger	Bruce M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (United Bible Societies, 31975)
mg.	margin.
Moffatt	James Moffatt, The Moffatt Translation of the Bible (Hodder & Stoughton, 21935).
MS(S)	manuscript(s).
NEB	The New English Bible: Old Testament, 1970; New Testament, 21970.
NIV	New International Version: Old Testament, 1978; New Testament, 21978.
Plummer	Alfred Plummer, Commentary on the Epistles of St John, Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges (Cambridge University Press, 1894).
RSV	Revised Standard Version: Old Testament, 1952; New Testament, 21971.
RV	Revised Version, 1884.
Smalley	Stephen S. Smalley, 1, 2, 3 John, Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 51 (Word Books, 1984).
Smith	David Smith, Commentary on the Epistles of John, The Expositor’s Greek Testament (Hodder & Stoughton, 1910).
Tyndale	William Tyndale, The Exposition of the Fyrst Epistle of Seynt Jhon (1531), reprinted in English Reformers, vol. 26 of the Library of Christian Classics, edited by T. H. L. Parker (SCM/Westminster, 1966).
Westcott	B. F. Westcott, Commentary on the Epistles of St John (1883; Eerdmans, 1966).