Tradition held that the Johannine Epistles (1, 2, and 3 John) were the work of John, the beloved apostle. These works discuss ...

The Second Epistle follows a reply from Lapraik to Burns' first Epistle to J. Lapraik, An Old Scotch Bard and is mostly autobiographical in content and details the bad luck which has been the ...

The mock persona blames Dr Taylor of Norwich and John Goldie, the subject of the Epistle, both of whom are ... from the mock Calvinist persona in the second half of the poem and some critics ...