Christ as 'the Truth' is confined
to the Fourth Gospel.

3. When we turn from Eusebius to Irenaeus, we meet with other evidence
pointing to the same result. I refer to a passage with which the readers
of these articles will be familiar, for I have had occasion to refer to
it more than once [194:1]; but I have not yet investigated its
connection with Papias. Irenaeus writes [194:2]:--

As the elders say, then also shall they which have been deemed
worthy of the abode in heaven go thither, while others shall enjoy
the delight of paradise, and others again shall possess the
brightness of the city; for in every place the Saviour shall be
seen, according as they shall be worthy who see him. [They say]
moreover that this is the distinction between the habitation of
them that bring forth a hundred-fold, and them that bring forth
sixty-fold, and them that bring forth thirty-fold; of whom the
first shall be taken up into the heavens, and the second shall
dwell in paradise, and the third shall inhabit the city; and that
therefore our Lord has said, 'In my Father's abode are many
mansions' ([Greek: en tois tou patros mou monas einai pollas]); for
all things are of God, who giveth to all their appropriate
dwelling, according as His Word saith that allotment is made unto
all by the Father, according as each man is, or shall be, worthy.
And this is the banqueting-table at which those shall recline who
are called to the marriage and take part in the feast. The
presbyters, the disciples of the Apostles, say that this is the
arrangement and disposal of them that are saved, and that they
advance by such steps, and ascend through the Spirit to the Son,
and through the Son to the Father, the Son at length yielding His
work to the Father, as it is said also by the Apostle, 'for He must
reign until He putteth all enemies under his feet,' etc. [194:3]

I am glad to be saved all further trouble about the grammar of this
passage. Our author now allows that the sentence with which we are
mainly concerned is oblique, and that the words containing a reference
to our Lord's saying in St John's Gospel are attributed to the elders
who are mentioned before and after. He still maintains however, that 'it
is unreasonable to claim' the reference 'as an allusion to the work of
Papias,' He urges in one place that there is 'a wide choice of