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1 John 2:12
I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for His name's sake.
I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for His name's sake.
Verse 12. _I WRITE UNTO YOU, LITTLE CHILDREN_] τεκνια. _Beloved_ _children_, (1 John 2:1) those who were probably the apostle's own converts, and members of the Church over which he presided. But it...
I WRITE UNTO YOU, LITTLE CHILDREN - There has been much difference of opinion among commentators in regard to this verse and the three following verses, on account of their apparent tautology. Even Do...
II. LIGHT AND DARKNESS AND THE TESTS Chapter S 1:5-2:17 _ 1. God is light; walking in darkness and in light (1 John 1:5)_ 2. What the light manifests (1 John 1:8) 3. The advocacy of Christ to maint...
1 JOHN 2:12 slightly breaks the argument. It is prompted by John's desire to remove any impression which the earnestness of his previous words may have created, that he had misgivings as to the spirit...
I am writing to you, little children, Because your sins are forgiven you through his name. I am writing to you, fathers, Because you have come to know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to yo...
A PASTOR'S CONCERN (1 John 2:1-2)...
ARE FORGIVEN. App-174. FOR, &C. = on account of (App-104. 1 John 2:2) H is name....
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...
Threefold Statement of Reasons for Writing "Hitherto St John has stated briefly the main scope of his Epistle. He has shewn what is the great problem of life, and how the Gospel meets it with an answ...
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. GOD IS LIGHT...
12–14. THREEFOLD STATEMENT OF REASONS FOR WRITING “Hitherto St John has stated briefly the main scope of his Epistle. He has shewn what is the great problem of life, and how the Gospel meets it with a...
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...
ΓΡΆΦΩ (G1125) _praes. ind. act._ писать. _Praes._ может обозначать письмо, которое Иоанн пишет теперь, то есть процесс написания: "я пишу" ΈΓΡΑΨΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΓΡΆΦΩ писать. _Aor._ может быть э...
DISCOURSE: 2437 THE DIFFERENT GROWTH AND PRIVILEGES OF GOD’S CHILDREN 1 John 2:12. I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake. I write unto you, fathers,...
_1 JOHN 2:12_.— In this and the two following verses, St. John affectionately addresses Christians of various ages or standings in the church; _children,_ or young converts; _young men,_ or those who...
CHAPTER V _TO WALK IN THE LIGHT IS TO SHARE GOD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD OUR BROTHERS IN CHRIST_ (The Second Test. The First Time) 1 John 2:7-17 A. _The Text_ Beloved, no new commandment write I unto yo...
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...
VERSE 12. I WRITE UNTO YOU, LITTLE CHILDREN. John calls all the followers of Christ little children. While to him they were a loving charge, I rather think the use of this phrase was designed by him t...
1 The ministry of John is based upon his personal acquaintance with the Lord in the flesh. Indeed, this was the prime qualification of all the twelve apostles (Act_1:21). They were to bear witness to...
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...
THE THINGS THEY MUST NOT LOVE IF THEY WALKED IN THE LIGHT (1 John 2:12). — The solemnity of the thoughts of 1 John 2:9; 1 John 2:11 is too much for the warm heart of the Apostle. He cannot bear even t...
τεκνία, all the Apostle's readers, his customary appellation (see n. on 1 John 2:1). ἀφέωνται, perf., the Doric form of ἀφεῖνται. τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ, the character, mind, purpose of God revealed in Christ...
The Appeal of Experience. “I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name's sake; I am writing to you, fathers, because ye have got to know Him that it is...
TRANSIENT DESIRES, ABIDING LIFE 1 John 2:12 There are gradations in Christian experience-the child, the father, the young man. The note of the child is the glad sense of forgiveness; of the father, a...
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...
(i) I write unto you, (9) little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his (k) name's sake. (i) Therefore I write to you, because you are of their number whom God has reconciled to himself...
_I write to you, little children, &c. St. Augustine and divers others think that by these different words, he only means Christians more or less instructed and advanced in the knowledge and practice o...
I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. (13) I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young...
12_Little children _This is still a general declaration, for he does not address those only of a tender age, but by _little children _he means men of all ages, as in the first verse, and also hereafte...
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...
I WRITE UNTO YOU, LITTLE CHILDREN,.... By whom the apostle means in common all the saints he writes to, whom he afterwards distributes into fathers, young men, and little children; for the same word i...
I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. Ver. 12. _I write unto you, little children_] A Christian hath his degrees of growth; childhood, 1 Corinthia...
_I write unto you, little_, or _beloved, children_ Because this appellation is used (1Jn 2:1) to denote Christians of all ages and characters. Beza, and many other critics, suppose that St. John here...
For the right understanding of these verses it is important to observe, first, that in them the apostle represents himself as appealing to Christians on the ground of the experience and knowledge whic...
“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...
12-14 As Christians have their peculiar states, so they have peculiar duties; but there are precepts and obedience common to all, particularly mutual love, and contempt of the world. The youngest sin...
He here uses an appellation before _\1 JOHN 2:1\_ applied to all in common, being put alone; but being now set in contradistinction to others, must be understood to intend a distinct rank of Christian...
Origen Commentary on John Book X "After this[1]...
1 John 2:12 write G1125 (G5719) you G5213 children G5040 Because G3754 sins G266 forgiven G863 (G5769) you...
‘I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake (by means of his name).' John's tender concern continues to come out. Having spoken of ‘teknia' (1 John 2:1) an...
THEY KNOW THE FATHER AND THE ETERNAL WORD AND MUST BEWARE OF LOVING THE WORLD (1 JOHN 2:12). Having exhorted them of the need to remain true to Him and to the Word Who ‘is' from the beginning, and to...
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...
_Testimony to the reality of their religion; addressed to the church generally, and specially under two aspects._ 1 John 2:12-13. I WRITE UNTO YOU, LITTLE CHILDREN, BECAUSE YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN YOU...
I WRITE (γραφω). Present active indicative, repeated three times, referring to this Epistle. For "the name" see 1 John 3:23; 3 John 1:7. They were loyal to the name of Christ (Matthew 10:22).ARE FO...
SINS SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
1 John 2:12 The Children; the Youths; the Old Men. I. "I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for His name's sake. Many interpreters are careful to tell us that the Apo...
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...
BECAUSE YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN. "You are not unbelievers and I do not mean to doubt the sincerity of your faith. It is because I know your sins are forgiven by the merit of Christ's name (see note on...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 2:7 The Unchanging Commandment in a Changing World. John emphasizes the love commandment. He then describes the challenge of living as a Christian in a dark world (vv....
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 2:12 John knows his message is greater than the evil he describes. Some view LITTLE CHILDREN, FATHERS, and YOUNG MEN as symbo
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...
. _write unto you, little children._ Commending what he had said to the several grades whom he addressed. He places them in three classes according to their respective ages. He congratulates them on t...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 2:12 indicate the things which the disciples must _not_ love, if they would walk in the light, and be sons with the “Only Begotten.” 1 John 2:12. SINS ARE FORGI...
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 John 1:4; 1 John 1:7; 1 John 1:9; 1 John 2:1; 1 John 2:13;...
Little children. See on ver. 1, and John 1:12. Not children in age, but addressed to the readers generally. Name. See on John 1:12; John 2:23....
I have written to you, beloved children — Thus St. John bespeaks all to whom he writes. But in 1 John 2:13, he divides them particularly into "fathers," "young men," and "little children." Because you...
Observe here, 1. The care which God has taken, not only to have his word preached, but written; I WRITE UNTO YOU, partly to supply his ministers' absence, that their writings might be instead of vocal...