[199]Rev. xxii. 7. See [note on p. 86, above].
[200]It would seem likely, but by no means certain, that Dionysius is speaking of strictly baptismal names here. We have very slight grounds for being sure that the custom of connecting the giving of a name at baptism was universal as early as this.
[201]See Acts xii. 25 and xiii. 5.
[202]Ibid., xiii. 13.
[203]This assertion is taken almost verbatim from Eus., H. E. iii. 39, where a passage is also quoted from Papias in which John the Elder is mentioned as well as John the Apostle among the Lord’s disciples.
[204]This is the second argument which Dionysius adduces, but he seems as if he now includes the third with it. See above.
[205]John i. 1, and 1 John i. 1, 2.
[206]Cf. 1 John iv. 2.
[207]Ibid., i. 2, 3.
[208]It looks as if this phrase may be a marginal gloss on the Light, which has crept into the text, as it occurs nowhere in the writings of St. John nor elsewhere in the New Testament; but the same might be said of the “adoption” below, and one or two others of the other phrases are quite rare in St. John’s writings, so that they may be all instances of the thoughts, not the words being identical in the two books.