ECF quotes and the Blessed Disciple

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Does anyone have some quotes from Apostolic Tradition (like the Early Church Fathers) who wrote about John being the Blessed Disciple?
 
John 21:42 tells us that the beloved disciple wrote the fourth Gospel.

Here are some second-century witnesses from William A. Jergens’ The Faith of the Early Fathers, Volume 1.:

Afterwards, John, the disciple of the Lord, who reclined at His bosom, also published a Gospel, while he was residing at Ephesus in Asia. (St. Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies 3:1:1, about A.D. 189)

This is what the Holy Scriptures teach us, as do all the inspired men, one of whom, John, says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,” showing that at first God was alone, and the Word was in Him. (St. Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus 2:24, about A.D. 181)

The fourth Gospel is by John, one of the disciples. (The Muratorian Fragment, A.D. 155-200)
 
That John, again, who reclined on the bosom of our Lord, and whom He greatly loved, John 21:20 — he, too, was a holy person. (Pseudo-Clement of Rome, ca. A.D. 150)

Taking occasion from Papias of Hierapolis, the illustrious, a disciple of the apostle who leaned on the bosom of Christ. (Fragments of Papias, ca. 110-140 A.D.)

For John reclined on His breast through love, and we may conclude that before the Supper they had seen many tokens of special honour given by Jesus to John… (Origen, ca. 200 A.D.)

Afterwards John, the disciple of the Lord, who also reclined on his bosom, published his Gospel, while staying at Ephesus (Eusebius, ca 330 A.D.)

And He, having committed His mother to John, said, Behold your Son. (John Chrysostom, ca. 380-390 A.D.)

[F]or the evangelist is the same John who, among all the disciples, reclined on the Lord’s breast (Augustine, ca. 390 A.D.)

Where, therefore, is the man who is without any vice, that is, fuel or root, as it were, of sin, when he who reclined on the breast of the Lord says, If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us?** 1 John 1:8** (Jerome, ca. 400 A.D.)
 
Cruxis117 said:
Does anyone have some quotes from Apostolic Tradition (like the Early Church Fathers) who wrote about John being the Blessed Disciple?
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steve_b said:
I’m sure there’s many more. Here’s a quick search

Re: “Blessed John” the apostle
newadvent.org/fathers/1701119.htm Augustine
newadvent.org/fathers/3604009.htm Leo the Great
newadvent.org/fathers/0516.htm Hippolytus

take for yourself the text(s) surrounding “blessed John” for quotes
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While searching another quote I found this quote in addition to the ones above

From Irenaeus “Against Heresies” Bk 3 Ch 3 vs 4
  1. But Polycarp also was not only instructed by apostles, and conversed with many who had seen Christ, but was also, by apostles in Asia, appointed bishop of the Church in Smyrna, whom I also saw in my early youth, for he tarried [on earth] a very long time, and, when a very old man, gloriously and most nobly suffering martyrdom, departed this life, having always taught the things which he had learned from the apostles, and which the Church has handed down, and which alone are true. To these things all the Asiatic Churches testify, as do also those men who have succeeded Polycarp down to the present time,—a man who was of much greater weight, and a more stedfast witness of truth, than Valentinus, and Marcion, and the rest of the heretics. He it was who, coming to Rome in the time of Anicetus caused many to turn away from the aforesaid heretics to the Church of God, proclaiming that he had received this one and sole truth from the apostles,—that, namely, which is handed down by the Church. *There are also those who heard from him that John, the disciple of the Lord, going to bathe at Ephesus, and perceiving Cerinthus within, rushed out of the bath-house without bathing, exclaiming, “Let us fly, lest even the bath-house fall down, because Cerinthus, the enemy of the truth, is within.” *
 
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