He who denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist: is in a special manner an adversary of Christ and the Christian religion, when he denies Jesus to be the Messias, or to have been from eternity the true Son of God. --- He who denieth him to be the Son, neither hath he the Father. He who denies either of these truths denieth both. He who denies the Son of God to be the eternal Son, denies the Father to be the eternal Father. (Witham)
Verse 22. _WHO IS A LIAR BUT HE THAT DENIETH THAT JESUS IS THE_ _CHRIST?_] Here we see some of the false doctrines which were then propagated in the world. There were certain persons who, while they a...
WHO IS A LIAR - That is, who is false; who maintains an erroneous doctrine; who is an impostor, if he is not? The object of the apostle is to specify one of the prevailing forms of error, and to show...
III. TRUTH AND ERROR CHAPTER 2:18-27 This section contains a warning which is addressed to the babes, the little children, young believers. Truth and error, are contrasted. Seducers were trying to le...
THE ANTICHRISTS AND THEIR TEACHING. Here John deals with the false teachers, who embody the spirit of Antichrist and betoken by their appearance the speedy end of the world and the return of Christ. T...
Who is the liar but the man who denies that Jesus is the Anointed One of God? Antichrist is he who denies the Father and the Son. Anyone who denies the Son does not even have the Father; and everyone...
A PASTOR'S CONCERN (1 John 2:1-2)...
A. the. Compare John 8:44; 2 Thessalonians 2:11 (_the_ lie). BUT. except. Greek. _ei me_. DENIETH. Greek. _arneomai._ Always "deny" save Acts 7:35;...
The Persons to be Avoided; Antichrists 18. _Little children_ Or, _Little ones_. It is difficult to see anything in this section specially suitable to children: indeed the very reverse is rather the ca...
_Who is a liar_ More accurately, as R.V., _Who is_ THE _liar_: the A.V. here again follows the earlier English Versions. But we must beware of exaggerating the article in _interpretation_, although it...
The Things and Persons to be Avoided These are summed up under two heads: i. _The World and the Things in the World_(15 17); ii. _Antichrists_(18 26). The section begins with a _threefold statement_o...
12–28. THE THINGS AND PERSONS TO BE AVOIDED These are summed up under two heads: i. _The World and the Things in the World_ (15–17); ii. _Antichrists_ (18–26). The section begins with a _threefold sta...
18–26. THE PERSONS TO BE AVOIDED;—ANTICHRISTS...
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. GOD IS LIGHT...
1 John 2:29 to 1 John 5:12. GOD IS LOVE There seems to be no serious break in the Epistle from this point onwards until we reach the concluding verses which form a sort of summary (1 John 5:13-21). Th...
22. ΤΊΣ ἘΣΤΙΝ Ὁ ΨΕΎΣΤΗΣ. _Who is_ THE _liar_? R.V. is here again superior to previous English Versions. But we must beware of exaggerating the article in _interpretation_, although it is right to _tra...
ΨΕΎΔΟΣ (G5579) лжец, ΕΊ ΜΗ (G1487; G3361) если не, кроме, ΆΡΝΟΎΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. med. (dep.) part. (subst.)_ от ΆΡΝΈΟΜΑΙ (G629) отказываться, отрицать, ΤΌΝ ΠΑΤΈΡΑ ΚΑΊ ΤΌΝ ΥΊΌΝ Отец и Сын. Артикль обозн...
WHO IS A LIAR, BUT HE THAT DENIETH, &C.?— See ch. 1 John 4:3. Some are of opinion, that this was written against Cerinthus, who in his doctrine separated Jesus from Christ, maintaining that they were...
CHAPTER VI _TO WALK IN THE LIGHT IS TO SHARE GOD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD JESUS_ (The Third Test. The First Time) 1 John 2:18-28 A. _The Text_ Little children, it is the last hour: and as ye heard that...
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)...
VERSE 22. WHO IS A LIAR BUT HE THAT DENIETH THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST? To deny that Jesus is the Christ is to be guilty of falsehood. These apostates lyingly deny him. They reject the testimony he gav...
18 The term "antichrist" occurs only in John's epistles. The prefix "anti" now has the meaning of "against" and antichrist signifies one who is against Christ. But "anti" originally meant "instead of...
THE ADVOCACY OF CHRIST AND THE OBLIGATIONS OF BELIEVERS 1. My little children] The diminutive implies the fatherly care which the aged Apostle felt for his disciples. ADVOCATE] The word thus translate...
HOW CAN I BE SURE? 1 JOHN _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 2 CHRIST SPEAKS FOR US AND WE SHOULD OBEY GOD (1 JOHN 2:1-6) V1 My *children, I write these things to you so that you will not *sin. But if you...
(8) THE MANIFESTATIONS OF DARKNESS (1 John 2:18). (_a_) _Signs whereby they should know the forerunners of the last time_ (1 John 2:18). (_b_) _Exhortation to continue in the light_ (1 John 2:24)
(5) THE GLORIOUS RESULTS OF GOD’S LOVE REALISED THROUGH THE SONSHIP (1 John 2:19). (_a_) _The comfort of assurance_ (1 John 2:19). (_b_) _The grant of our requests_ (1 John 2:22). (_c_)
ψεύστης, _cf._ n. on 1 John 1:6. The Cerinthian distinction between Jesus and the Christ was a denial of the possibility of the Incarnation, _i.e._, of the filial relation of man to God. οὐκ in depend...
A Warning against Heretical Teaching. “Little ones, it is the last hour; and, as ye heard that Antichrist is coming, even now have many antichrists arisen; whence we recognise that it is the last hour...
LOYALTY TO TRUTH 1 John 2:18 The Holy One is surely the risen Savior, who has passed into the heavens, whence He bestows the Holy Spirit as a sacred chrism on meek and trustful souls. We can say with...
Affirming that the purpose of his writing is that we sin not, the writer declared that even if we sin, provision is made by which it may be put away. The tests whereby we may know our relation to ligh...
CHRISTIANS ARE ANOINTED Those who were to be kings were anointed, thus showing God had elevated them to a higher position (1 Samuel 10:10). The Christians to whom John wrote had been similarly elevate...
(23) Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the (r) Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. (23) He shows now plainly the false doctrine of the antichrist's, that is,...
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. (19) They went out from us, but th...
22_Who is a liar _He does not assert that they alone were liars who denied that the Son of God appeared in the flesh, lest no one in unloosing the knot should above measure torment himself; but that t...
If, on the other hand, we have even committed sin and all, being judged according to the light, is confessed (so that the will no longer takes part in it, the pride of that will being broken down), He...
WHO IS A LIAR, BUT HE THAT DENIETH THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST?.... Or that very Christ, and true Messiah, who was spoken of by all the prophets, since the beginning of the world, and so much, and so lon...
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Ver. 22. _That denieth that Jesus_] Papists deny him as a King, in setting up the po...
_I have not written unto you_ In the manner I have done; _because ye know not the truth_ In which case I must have entered largely into the discussion of this matter; _but_, on the contrary, I have co...
A LIAR; an asserter of false doctrines. DENIETH THE FATHER AND THE SON; that is, denies the Father in denying the Son, as he goes on to state in the next verse....
WHO IS A LIAR BUT HE THAT DENIETH THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST? HE IS ANTI-CHRIST, THAT DENIETH THE FATHER AND THE SON....
Anti-Christian characteristics and the Christian's attitude:...
“My children, these things I write to you in order that ye may not sin; and if anyone sin, we have a patron with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (JND). If we have seen some absolute, positive...
18-23 Every man is an antichrist, who denies the Person, or any of the offices of Christ; and in denying the Son, he denies the Father also, and has no part in his favour while he rejects his great s...
Especially may the ill accord be discerned between Divine truth and a lie, when the lie is so directly levelled against the foundations upon which the whole fabric is built, as the denying Jesus to be...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Antiochians And he that rejects the incarnation, and is ashamed of the cross for which I am in bonds, this man is antichrist.[24] Tertullian Against Praxeas John, moreove...
1 John 2:22 Who G5101 is G2076 (G5748) liar G5583 but G1508 denies G720 (G5740) that G3754 Jesus...
‘I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because (or ‘that') no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? Th...
WARNING AGAINST FALSE RELIGION AND FALSE TEACHERS (1 JOHN 2:18). Having warned against the world which is under the control of the Evil One and will stultify their faith, John now warns against false...
1 John 2:22-23. WHO IS THE LIAR, BUT HE THAT DENIETH THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST? If every lie comes from another source than the truth, what is that source? Our Saviour said of one:' He is a liar, and t...
First the apostle announces his message that God is light and only light (1 John 1:5). Then follows (down to chap. 1 John 2:2) a universal statement of the evangelical conditions of fellowship with Hi...
THE LIAR (ο ψευστης). The liar (with the article) _par excellence_. Rhetorical question to sharpen the point made already about lying in 1 John 1:6; 1 John 1:10; 1 John 2:4;...
1 John 2:18 The Last Time; the Christ; the Antichrist; the Chrism. I. The Apostles said that a new age was at hand, the universal age, the age of the Son of man, which would be preceded by a great cr...
1 John 2:1. _My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not._ For this we ought to watch and strive, that we sin not. 1 John 2:1. _And if any man sin-_ What then? Is it a hopele...
1 John 2:1. 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: and he is the propitiation for our...
CONTENTS: Christ's advocacy for the believer. Tests of fellowship, obedience and love. Warning against worldliness and apostates. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, John, Satan, anti-christ. CONCLUSION: To kno...
1 John 2:2. _He is the propitiation for our sin:_ ιλασμος, a ram, or other victim offered as an atoning sacrifice for sin. On Genesis 15:9, the rabbins make a distinction between the heifer, the she g...
WHO, THEN, IS THE LIAR? "You can very easily tell who it is that is lying about Jesus Christ the Messiah!!! It is the one who says that Jesus was _only human,_ and not _the Christ!"_ (See Introduction...
CHAPTER 2 VER. 1. _My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not._ At the end of the last chapter it was said that all who were grown up had sinned, either mortally as heathens, o...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 2:20. UNCTION FROM THE HOLY ONE.—Or, “anointing.” The association of the Spirit coming to a man, when anointed to a Divine office, may be seen in the case of the...
EXPOSITION 1 JOHN 2:1, 1 JOHN 2:2 Moreover, walking in the light involves accepting the propitiation wrought through Jesus Christ the Righteous. The connexion with the preceding is close. We have ju...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to I John chapter 2. And we'll begin tonight at verse 1 John 2:12 where we left off last Sunday night. The book of I John is a book of proofs. It isn't what I say; it's...
1 Corinthians 12:2; 1 Corinthians 12:3; 1 John 1:6; 1 John 2:18;...
A liar [ο ψ ε υ σ τ η ς]. Rev., correctly, "the liar." For a similar interrogative phrase see ch. 1 John 5:5. It marks the lively feeling with which the apostle writes. By the definite article, the li...
Who is that liar — Who is guilty of that lying, but he who denies that truth which is the sum of all Christianity? That Jesus is the Christ; that he is the Son of God; that he came in the flesh, is on...