Excerpt from Annotations on the Gospel of St. John: Critical, Philological and ExplanatoryPatmos; and that he remained in this island till a decree of Nerva, Domitian's successor, restored him to freedom; -that he then returned to Asia, and, the bishop of the Ephesian Church being dead, took upon himself the government of that Church; and at the same time exercised a kind of archiepiscopal sway over the rest of the seven Churches of Asia, which all, (with the exception of Ephesus,) had been founded by himself. Several interesting anecdotes are related besides concerning him, which our limits forbid us to enlarge upon - such as, his recovering a ruined and abandoned young man, by his earnestness and kindness his horror at finding himself under the same roof with the heretic Cerinthus; his reiterated exhortations, uttered amidst the feebleness of extreme old age, to the cultivation of brother ly love, &c. After all, these anecdotes are perhaps more interesting than true.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.