39.] [Footnote 12: _Adv.

Haer._, III.xvi.5, 8; Cf.

Eusebius, _Hist.
Eccl._, v.

8.] But it is, above all, the perusal of the work itself which is calculated to give this impression.

The author always speaks as an eye-witness; he wishes to pass for the apostle John.