1:1 Well this is obfuscatory. Who is this lady? I'm sure that most will take it as a metaphor for the church as a whole, but a reading that assumes an individual audience might be revelatory.
1:3 More anti-trinitarian theology from John.
1:4 This leads one away from a metaphorical interpretation of the "lady". If she is the church as a whole, then surely it would be less than an overjoy that only some of her children were walking in the truth.
1:5-6 This is beginning to read almost like an Abelard and Heloise situation.
1:12 And there is no way that John was going to meet the entire congregation face to face. This simply must be an individual.
1:13 Especially considering that the church proper has no metaphorical sister . . . this verse especially makes me sympathetic to the reading that John was writing to Mary herself.
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