Let us stir ourselves to a clearer decision by remembering that He is presented to us as to His contemporaries.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
He and Richard Maule were old friends-in fact, contemporaries.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
He died in 1381. His contemporaries called him "the Admirable."
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell