his according to tlie other on account of his it follows that contrary being ma with equal to explain the fact t alike inadequate no founded on tlie local i of the to explain the in ground must be taken in a spirit and tendency of the writings from this of proposition been given cause which determined in the con of the fourth gospel and tliat of the ones accounts al to for their as to the limits they a to the of in other words the delivered by in and recorded by john for a mon mature development of christianity than that in the period tbey were not retained in the primitive of which the writers wore organs and first k to the church by john who wrote christ was in a more advanced j is this at an though it la su than the i or how could the and tlie in the teaching of he with such that the � he to and the to he discourse in the at vi it may be said in he had a mon public around liim and could be more readily in but the could have int more did the jews from hi sl to lost according to john s representation and as in be l the most communion with his we should rather have that would be the of hia more profound � in k t sl t din ii w j ur di in s en du k s it u till life ut lion as i t given a of an final re of in is no p whatever for earlier visits were devoid of and tliat liis on took throughout a higher tone but even allowing all di e� of in and wore th� of the t were performed re � as the of man who had an the of sight on the mind and the of i which from their rank among of christianity l almost mention of those early visits of to during they it is impossible to explain why the writers if they of the earlier visits of to should not have mentioned and it must he hat if be right the e knew of an part ol the earlier of if on the other hand the latter bo u author of the fourth or of tradition by ho was a large k of what he the of or at assigned to it a locality on � closer however the relation between john and writer is not simply that the latter might not know the foi but such thai they must have proceeded from positively for example the writers c h as aa tile time that ho takes up i abode there after tho a neglect to give a particular n anon aa he to from crowd by a viii or that he withdrew into the of the of xiv or he into tlie region of and on account of the offence by at his xv john on the contrary a special reason why es and into u not to contend hia very journey thither appears to be occasioned solely by the invitation to hia departure into the attended by him in his public ia expressly for by the ominous which the number of hia had excited among iv iy hia retirement after the second it al io into the country east of sea of vi i must bo in relation to t ol v immediately after the as n reason for the continuance of in the malignant designs of his enemies wliich rendered his abode in perilous to hia life vii tlie vol between tho feast of and of the to have been spent by in tho capital i p i op of liim to absent himself x on the other band his journey x aiid that into k xl presented as ef of his hy jew the same as tliat i t � and witli to original of parents of is found l l the fourth with respect to the of his as in to bo of abode and th thi adopted circumstances while the representation so in the of the turns on idea until his was the of the of and tiiat he left it from particular motives and for a time while that of john on the contrary turns on i up tliat would have taught ly in ami � liad not to retire into the of these two one only can he true thej were to be o of john w v with of r � allowed to tlie l� wn in of the fourth t and so is this custom that author of the does not c the to the of � numbers it among the to of s gospel that it limits the of to t and has no important ground of doubt to produce ag the of the than the of its author witli the of t if this decision be well founded it rest on a careful consideration ol tlie of the two the greater from e sources and more we have shown in tlie introduction the evidence or testimony for tlie of fourth and of the one tliat of is of about equal i� it nothing in case but leaves tlie decision to evident in relation to this the following question must be con is it more probable was actual in and previous to ins last journey yet at the time whence the arose ail traces of the f had or that on the although never for the of public his last journey thither yet at the time and place of the of the fourth a of social visits had been formed f � l m s m t i l r � t f jl c � r m s t a n x life op s i the above critics seek to first might bo the case in following the they 