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^{page 285 note 2} So, for example, de la Croix, P.-M.: ‘Le symbolisme apparaît déjá au plan le plus matériel: celui des nombres’ (L'Évangile de Jean, Paris, 1959, p. 44).Google Scholar

^{page 285 note 3} Lightfoot, R. H. holds it ‘likely’ that in this gospel ‘the notes of time sometimes carry a significance beyond their surface meaning’ (St John's Gospel, Oxford, 1960, p. 103).Google Scholar

^{page 285 note 4} Bernard, Lagrange, Barrett, Lightfoot, Bultmann, Wikenhauser, to name but a few.

^{page 285 note 5} Westcott, Belser, and Kraft believed that the evangelist had adopted the official method.

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^{page 286 note 3} Op. cit. p. 103.

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^{page 286 note 4} Bultmann merely affirms that the tenth hour signifies ‘den Beginn des Wirkens Jesu bzw. der “Christlichen Ära”’, but he does not indicate why that hour should have been chosen ( DasEvangelium des Johannes, Göttingen, 1962, p. 70).Google ScholarPubMed

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^{page 289 note 3} Op. cit. p. 454.

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