New Testament theology is admittedly the most important and the most difficult of New Testament studies. All our other disciplines—textual criticism, the study of the grammar, idiom and vocabulary of Hellenistic Greek, the examination of the literary and historical problems which the literature of the New Testament presents—all derive their interest from their bearing on New Testament theology.

La section proprement prophétique de l' Apocalypse johannique (iv–xxii) se divise nettement en deux grandes parties. La seconde partie (xii–xxii) est née d'une situation concrète que l'on parvient assez aisément à reconstituer: le point de départ en est la persécution dirigée contre les chrétiens par le pouvoir impérial.

In a previous number of New Testament Studies (II(1957), 115–27), I argued that behind Ephesians i. 3–14 and I Peter i. 3–12 lie forms of liturgical prayer; that Ephesians as a whole might well be a Baptismal Encyclical; and that if this were so, the question of the priority of Colossians might have to be reconisdered.