Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
1 John 2:25
Which perseverance they are highly encouraged to by the promise of so great a thing as eternal life at length.
Which perseverance they are highly encouraged to by the promise of so great a thing as eternal life at length.
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Verse 25. _THIS IS THE PROMISE_] God has promised eternal life to all who believe on Christ Jesus. So they who receive his doctrine, and continue in communion with the Father and the Son, shall have t...
AND THIS IS THE PROMISE THAT HE HATH PROMISED US, EVEN ETERNAL LIFE - This is evidently added to encourage them in adhering to the truths which they had embraced respecting the Son of God. In maintain...
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...
If that which you have heard from the beginning remains within you, you too will remain in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise which he made to you eternal life. I am writing these thin...
A PASTOR'S CONCERN (1 John 2:1-2)...
PROMISE. Greek. _epangelia,_ the only occurance in John's writings. HATH. Omit. ETERNAL. App-151. LIFE. App-170. See 1 John 1:2....
_And this is the promise that he hath promised us_ Or, _and the promise which He promised us is this_: the aorist had better be retained, and -this" is probably the predicate, referring to what follow...
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...
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. GOD IS LIGHT...
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 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...
ΚΑῚ ΑὝΤΗ ἘΣΤῚΝ Ἡ ἘΠ. ἫΝ ΑΥ̓ΤῸΣ ἘΠ. ἩΜΙ͂Ν. _And_ THE PROMISE WHICH HE HIMSELF PROMISED US IS THIS. As in 1 John 1:5; 1 John 3:23; 1 John 5:11; 1 John 5:14
ΈΠΑΓΓΕΛΊΑ (G1860) объявление, обещание, зарок (BAGD; Schnackenburg). ΈΠΗΓΓΕΊΛΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΠΑΓΓΈΛΟΜΑΙ (G1861) обещать, давать обетование....
AND THIS IS THE PROMISE, &C.— OEcumenius thought, that και, _and,_ was put for γαρ, _for,_ οτι, _because._ It is evident, that the apostle here mentions the promise of eternal life as a motive to indu...
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...
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). H...
VERSE 25. AND THIS IS THE PROMISE. The result of this steadfastness in the faith preached from the beginning, and which is lovingly entertained in this fellowship with the Father and Son, is this ete...
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...
To remain in the Son and in the *Father is to have *eternal life. This is the new life in the spirit. This life will never end. The *Lord Jesus has promised this life to all believers. He gives life...
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)
ἐπαγγελία, _repromissio_, “promise”; only here in the Johannine writings (see note on 1 John 1:5). αὐτός, _i.e._, the Father. God is the Promiser, and His promises are made in Christ (_cf._ 2 Corinthi...
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...
POSSESSING ETERNAL LIFE The beginning of the Christian life comes because of the hearing of the gospel. We must give a permanent home to the first principles and build on them if we want to abide in t...
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...
In the last place, he reminds us that _it is real happiness when God dwells in us_. The words he uses are ambiguous. They may be rendered, “_This is the promise which he has promised to us, even etern...
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...
AND THIS IS THE PROMISE THAT HE HATH PROMISED US,.... Either God the Father, who is that God that cannot lie, who in the covenant of his grace, before the world began, made this promise unto his peopl...
And this is the promise that he hath promised us, _even_ eternal life. Ver. 25. _Even eternal life_] Hold therefore the doctrine of faith sound and entire by the hand of faith, that ye may receive th...
_Let that therefore abide in you_ Namely, that doctrine concerning the Father and the Son; _which ye have heard from the beginning_ Of the preaching of the gospel: retain a firm belief of it, and let...
AND THIS IS THE PROMISE THAT HE HATH PROMISED US, EVEN ETERNAL LIFE. St. John here writes in almost an apologetic manner, both to avoid a misunderstanding and to urge the Christians forward in knowled...
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...
24-29 The truth of Christ, abiding in us, is a means to sever from sin, and unites us to the Son of God, John 15:3; John 15:4. What value should we put upon gospel truth! Thereby the promise of etern...
1 John 2:25 And G2532 this G3778 is G2076 (G5748) promise G1860 that G3739 He G846 promised G1861 ...
‘And this is the promise which he promised us, even the life eternal.' It is worth making sure that they do so, for ‘He' has promised eternal life to those who truly know Him. Eternal life consists in...
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 2:24-25. AS FOR YOU, LET THAT ABIDE IN YOU WHICH YE HEARD FROM THE BEGINNING. IF THAT WHICH YE HEARD FROM THE BEGINNING ABIDE IN YOU, YE SHALL ALSO ABIDE IN THE SON AND IN THE FATHER. AND THIS...
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...
AND THIS IS THE PROMISE (κα αυτη εστιν η επαγγελια). See 1 John 1:5 for the same idiom with αγγελια (message). This is the only instance of επαγγελια in the Johannine writings. Here "the promise" is...
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...
AND THIS IS WHAT. "You will find great happiness and jubilation in _that fellowship,_ because _Christ_ Jesus himself promised to give us _eternal life!!!"_...
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 2:24.—Omit “therefore. “WHICH YE HAVE HEARD.—Concerning Christ, and Christ’s truth, on the authority of His apostles. REMAIN … continue—In both cases prefer 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 John 1:2; 1 John 5:11; 1 John 5:20; 1 Timothy 1:16; 1 Timothy 6:12;
He — The Son. Hath promised us — If we abide in him....
Observe here, 1. How gracious Almighty God is to enforce his commands with promises of reward; he required of us adherence to the truth, and perseverance in it, in the former verse; here he promises e...