My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: - (1 John 5:18.) MY LITTLE CHILDREN, [ Teknia (G5040)] - the diminutive expresses the tender affection of an aged pastor and spiritual father.... [ Continue Reading ]
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. AND HE, [ Autos (G846)] - 'And Himself.' He is our all-prevailing Advocate, because He is Himself 'the propitiation:' abstract, as in 1 Corinthians 1:30: He is to us all that is needed for 'p... [ Continue Reading ]
And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. HEREBY, [ en (G1722) touto (G5124)] - 'in this.' 'It is herein only that we know (present) that we have knowledge of (perfect: once-for-all obtained and continuing knowledge of) Him' (1 John 2:4; 1 John 2:13). Tokens whereby to... [ Continue Reading ]
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. I KNOW - `I have knowledge of (perfect) Him' (cf. ).... [ Continue Reading ]
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. Not merely repeating the proposition, , or asserting the opposite alternative to , but expanding the "know Him" of into "in Him verily (not vain boasting) is the love of (i:e., toward) God p... [ Continue Reading ]
He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. ABIDETH - a condition lasting, without intermission and end. HE THAT SAITH ... OUGHT. So that his deeds may be consistent with his words. EVEN AS HE. Believers readily supply the name, their hearts being full o... [ Continue Reading ]
Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning. BRETHREN. 'Aleph (') A B C, Vulgate, read 'Beloved,' appropriate to the subject, love. NO NEW COMMANDMENT - love, the p... [ Continue Reading ]
Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. A NEW COMMANDMENT. It was "old," in that Christians as such had heard it from the first; but "new" [ kainee (G2537), not nea: new and different from the... [ Continue Reading ]
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. There is no mean between light and darkness, love and hatred, life and death, God and the world: wherever spiritual life is, however weak, there darkness and death up longer reign, love supplants hatred. hold... [ Continue Reading ]
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. Abiding in love is abiding in the light; for Gospel light not only illumines the understanding, but war... [ Continue Reading ]
But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes. IS IN DARKNESS, AND WALKETH. "Is" marks his continuing STATE: he has never come our of 'the darkness:' "walketh" marks his OUTWARD COURSE. WHIT... [ Continue Reading ]
I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. LITTLE CHILDREN, [ teknia (G5040)] - 'little sons;' 'dear sons and daughters:' not the same as 1 John 2:13 [ paidia (G3813)], "little children," 'infants' (in age and standing). He calls ALL to whom he writ... [ Continue Reading ]
I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. All three classes are first addressed in the present, "I write;" then in the... [ Continue Reading ]
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. LOVE NOT THE WORLD - that lieth in the wicked one (1 John 5:19), whom ye young men have overcome. Having once for all, through faith, overcome the world (1 John 4:4; 1 J... [ Continue Reading ]
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. ALL THAT IS IN THE WORLD - can be closed under one or other of the three. LUST OF THE FLESH - i:e., which has its seat in our lower animal nature. Sat... [ Continue Reading ]
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. THE WORLD - with all who are of the world worldly. PASSETH AWAY, [ paragetai (G3855)] - 'is passing away' even now. THE LUST THEREOF - in its threefold manifestation (1 John 2:16). HE THAT... [ Continue Reading ]
Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. LITTLE CHILDREN - in age. Same Greek as 1 John 2:13. After the fathers and young men were gone, "the last time" with its "many Anti... [ Continue Reading ]
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. OUT FROM US from our Christian communion Not necessarily a formal secession; thus Rome has spi... [ Continue Reading ]
But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. BUT - Greek, 'And.' He states the means which believers have to withstand Antichrists (1 John 2:18), namely, the chrism [ chrisma (G5545): a play upon similar sounds], or 'anointing unguent,' the Holy Spirit (plainly mentioned furt... [ Continue Reading ]
I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. BECAUSE YE KNOW IT, AND THAT ... Ye not only know the truth (concerning the Son and the Father, ), but else can detect a lie as opposed to the truth. For right is index of itself a... [ Continue Reading ]
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. A. 'Who is the [ ho (G3588)] liar?' guilty of the lie just mentioned (1 John 2:21). THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST - the central truth. HE IS ANTICHRIST - `the Antichrist:' not, howeve... [ Continue Reading ]
Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. 'Everyone who denieth the Son, hath not the Father either' (1 John 4:2); 'inasmuch as God hath given Himself to us wholly to be enjoyed in Christ' (Calvin). (HE THAT ACKNOWLEDGETH... [ Continue Reading ]
Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. LET THAT - truth respecting he Father and the Son, as a seed not merely dropped in, but having taken... [ Continue Reading ]
And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. THIS IS THE PROMISE. Eternal life shall be the permanent consummation of abiding in the Son and in the Father (1 John 2:24). HE, [ autos (G846)] - 'Himself,' "the Son" (cf. 1 John 1:1). PROMISED - (John 3:15; John 3:36; John... [ Continue Reading ]
These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. THESE THINGS - (1 John 2:18.) HAVE I WRITTEN - resumed from ; . SEDUCE YOU - try to lead you into error.... [ Continue Reading ]
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. BUT - Greek, 'And you (contrasting believers with the... [ Continue Reading ]
And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. LITTLE CHILDREN, [ teknia (G5040)] - 'little sons,' as 1 John 2:12: believers of every stage. ABIDE IN HIM - Christ. John, as a loving father, repeats his mo... [ Continue Reading ]
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. Heading of the second division of the letter: 'God is righteous, therefore everyone that doeth righteousness is born of Him.' Love is the grand principle of "righteousness" selected for discussion, 1... [ Continue Reading ]