If anyone has the print version would you be kind as to check this anomaly? I have found repeated instances of the word "verse" abbreviated with a simple "v" as in verse 9 (pg. 331): "In the previous v the writer ...."
Terry Cook
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Terry, mine shows the same as yours:
"9. In the previous v the writer has spoken of" AND shortly thereafter:
In this v he refers to a “radical departure from the faithStephen S. Smalley, vol. 51, Word Biblical Commentary : 1,2,3 John, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, Incorporated, 2002), 331.
I don't have the hard copy, but Amazon has page scans in their "Look Inside" feature. Here is that page from Amazon, which shows that the print version is the same: