The Gospel of John is always the text thrown against the Monarchists to prove that Jesus was not the Father. Yet it was written by Polycarp with a very clear anti-Markan agenda (see 1 John too).
I bet my life all those who rejected the Johannine corpus were Monarchians ...
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