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1 John 2:18
Little children, it is the last time; and as ye have heard that Anti-Christ shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
Little children, it is the last time; and as ye have heard that Anti-Christ shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
1 JOHN 2:18 o[ti (1) {B} The reading that best explains the origin of the other readings appears to be o[ti, which is strongly supported by a* B C Y 1739 _al_. The conjunction is lacking in a few wit...
Verse 18. _LITTLE CHILDREN, IT IS THE LAST TIME_] This place is variously understood. This is the _last dispensation_ of grace and mercy to mankind; the _present age_ is the _conclusion_ of the Jewis...
LITTLE CHILDREN - See 1 John 2:1. IT IS THE LAST TIME - The closing period or dispensation; that dispensation in which the affairs of the world are ultimately to be wound up. The apostle does not, how...
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...
A PASTOR'S CONCERN (1 John 2:1-2)...
LAST TIME. last hour. Compare Acts 2:17. HAVE. Omit. ANTICHRIST. Compare John 5:43; 2 Thessalonians 2:3. SHALL COME. cometh. ARE THERE. have arisen. WHEREBY. whence....
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...
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...
18–26. THE PERSONS TO BE AVOIDED;—ANTICHRISTS...
18. Before ἈΝΤΊΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ omit ὁ with [491]1[492][493] against [494][495][496]. [491] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the monastery of S. Catherine on Mount Sinai, and now at Petersburg...
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...
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. GOD IS LIGHT...
ΠΑΙΔΊΟΝ (G3813) маленький ребенок, дитя (_см._ 1 John 2:1). ΈΣΧΆΤΗ ΏΡ (G2078; G5610) последний час. ΉΚΟΎΣΑΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать, ΆΝΤΊΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ (G500) Антихрист.
LITTLE CHILDREN, IT IS THE LAST TIME— If these words are to be connected withthecontext,thenwe may consider them either as connected with the immediately preceding verses, and as containing one reason...
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...
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...
VERSE 18. LITTLE CHILDREN, IT IS THE LAST TIME. As to what is meant by the last time, different views are had. Dr. Macknight thinks it refers to the end of the Jewish commonwealth. With this view I ca...
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...
2:18 children, (f-2) _ Paidion_ (diminutive); it has reference to growth. It stands in contrast to 'young men' and 'fathers.' hour, (a-7) John uses 'hour' continually in the sense of 'time,' as John...
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...
THE LAST TIME] RV 'the last hour.' The Apostles undoubtedly anticipated a coming of Christ in the near future as a vital possibility, and all generations are enjoined by our Lord's teaching to do the...
John writes to all his readers as his *children. He calls them this to show that he loves them. He loves them as a father loves his children. He feels that he is responsible for them. He cares as pare...
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)
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...
Aug.: “Pueros alloquitur, ut festinent crescere, quia novissima hora est.… Proficite, currite, crescite, novissima hora est”. 1 John 2:28 puts it beyond doubt that ἐσχάτη ὥρα means “the end of the wor...
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...
A TROUBLING HOUR John told his readers he was writing during a last hour, the definite article not appearing in the original (1 John 2:18). The word hour, or Greek _horae_, refers to a fixed period of...
(16) (n) Little children, (17) it is the last time: (18) and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. (16) Now, he t...
It is the last hour. That is, according to the common interpretation, the last age of the world, from the coming of Christ to the day of judgment, and the end of the world, which St. Paul calls the en...
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...
18_It is the last time_, or _hour_. He confirms the faithful against offenses by which they might have been disturbed. Already many sects had risen up, which rent the unity of faith and caused disorde...
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...
LITTLE CHILDREN, IT IS THE LAST TIME,.... Or hour; not of the Jewish civil and church state, for that had been at an end for some time; this epistle was written some years after the destruction of Jer...
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. Ver. 18. _Little children_] Child...
1 John 2:18. "Little children, it is the last time; and as ye have heard that antichrists shall come, even now there are many antichrists, whereby we know it is the last time." It is not reasonable to...
_Little_, or _young, children_ The former caution against the love of the world belongs chiefly to old experienced Christians, or those who have attained some considerable knowledge and experience in...
THE LAST TIME; the same last time as that spoken of in 1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Timothy 3:1; 2 PETER 3:3. It agrees with the time foretold by our Lord when iniquity should abound, and false Christs and false...
“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...
THE LAST TIME; the time here referred to seems to be the destruction of Jerusalem, and the finishing of the Jewish state, both civil and ecclesiastical. In the Greek, the last hour, the approaching pe...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III Know ye therefore, that every lie is from without, and is not of the truth. Who is a liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is Antichrist."[288]...
1 John 2:18 children G3813 is G2076 (G5748) last G2078 hour G5610 and G2532 as G2531 heard G191 ...
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...
‘Little children, it is the last hour, and as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now have there arisen many antichrists, by which we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but th...
_The antichrists as errors of the darkness: their mark and character, with the protection against them._ 1 John 2:18. LITTLE CHILDREN: the address is to all; and with reference to the several characte...
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...
IT IS THE LAST HOUR (εσχατη ωρα εστιν). This phrase only here in N.T., though John often uses ωρα for a crisis (John 2:4; John 4:21; John 4:23; John 5:25;...
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 2:18 The Dispensations. Consider the leading dispensations under which mankind has been placed. I. A single arbitrary restriction, issued merely as a test of obedience, was the first of them...
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...
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...
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...
THE END IS NEAR! We find this sort of statement made again and again in the New Testament. We live in the _last days_ (Acts 2:17 and note), but these have been continuing for almost two thousand years...
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 2:18. LAST TIME.—R.V. “last hour”; probably it should be “_a_ last hour.” The period after Christ’s coming in the flesh, however long it may prove to be, is rega...
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 2:1; 1 John 2:22; 1 John 4:3; 1 Peter 1:20; 1 Peter 1:5;...
Little children [π α ι δ ι α]. See on ver. 13. The last hour [ε σ χ α τ η ω ρ α]. The phrase only here in the New Testament. On John's use of wra hour, as marking a critical season, see John 2:4; John...
My little children, it is the last time — The last dispensation of grace, that which is to continue to the end of time, is begun. Ye have heard that antichrist cometh — Under the term antichrist, or t...
Our apostle having warned them against the danger of covetousness in the foregoing verses, he cautions them against the danger of deceit in these; he tells them, that this is the last time of the Jewi...