Note 3 — Chapter XV · THE APOCALYPSE AND THE FOUR EPISTLES.

Judge Waite will not admit John’s authorship, and he cites Eusebius cc. 3-39, as having attributed the Apocalypse to John the Presbyter. This may indicate a present “tendency” by skeptical writers to shift their ground. Eusebius, however, only states that there were two, John the Apostle, and John the Presbyter, and that “it is probable that the second, if it be not allowed that it was the first, saw the Revelation ascribed to John.” Justin Martyr had long before (Dial., c. 81) in express terms given John the Apostle as the author; and such is the general verdict of scholars.