Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 John 2:7
When I speak of keeping his word, I write not a new commandment — I do not speak of any new one. But the old commandment, which ye had — Even from your forefathers.
When I speak of keeping his word, I write not a new commandment — I do not speak of any new one. But the old commandment, which ye had — Even from your forefathers.
1 JOHN 2:7 avgaphtoi, Instead of avgaphtoi, (strongly supported by a A B C P vg syrp, h copsa, bo arm _al_) the Textus Receptus, following K L and most minuscules, reads avdelfoi,. The latter word, w...
Verse 7. _BRETHREN, I WRITE NO NEW COMMANDMENT_] There seems a contradiction between this and the next verse. But the apostle appears to speak, not so much of any difference in the _essence_ of the p...
BRETHREN, I WRITE NO NEW COMMANDMENT UNTO YOU - That is, what I am now enjoining is not new. It is the same doctrine which you have always heard. There has been much difference of opinion as to what i...
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...
OBEDIENCE THE PROOF OF FELLOWSHIP. Here John repeats in a positive way the teaching of the previous section. Conduct cannot be, as the false teachers claimed, a matter of indifference, for true knowle...
A PASTOR'S CONCERN (1 John 2:1-2)...
Beloved, it is not a new commandment which I am writing to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning, the old commandment is the word which you heard. Again, it is a new commandment...
NO. not, as 1 John 2:2. NEW. Greek. _kainos._ See Matthew 9:17. FROM THE BEGINNING. Greek. _ap'_ (App-104.) _arches._ See 1 John 1:1. HAVE. Omit. FROM, &C. The texts omit....
_Brethren_ The true reading is BELOVED. This form of address is specially suitable to this section (1 John 2:7), in which the subject of _love_appears. In the second part of the Epistle, in which love...
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. God is Light 1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:11. What Walking in the Light involves This section is largely directed against the Gnostic do
Love of the Brethren 7 11. Walking in the light involves not only fellowship with God and with the brethren (1 John 1:5-7), consciousness and confession of sin (1 John 1:8-10), obedience by imitation...
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:11. WHAT WALKING IN THE LIGHT INVOLVES This section is largely directed against the Gnostic doctrine that to the man of enlightenment all conduct is morally indifferent. Against...
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. GOD IS LIGHT...
7. For ἈΔΕΛΦΟΊ ([464][465]) read ἈΓΑΠΗΤΟΊ ([466][467][468][469][470]), and after ἨΚΟΎΣΑΤΕ omit ἀπ ̓ ἀρχῆς with [471][472][473][474][475] and Versions against [476][477]. [464] 9th century. All three E...
7–11. LOVE OF THE BRETHREN 7–11. Walking in the light involves not only fellowship with God and with the brethren (1 John 1:5-7), consciousness and confession of sin (1 John 1:8-10), obedience by imit...
ΆΓΑΠΗΤΟΊ _voc. pl. от_ ΆΓΑΠΗΤΌΣ (G27) любимый, возлюбленный, ΚΑΙΝΉΝ _асс. sing. от_ ΚΑΙΝΌΣ (G2537) новый, обновленный, нового качества (RWP; Trench, Synonyms, 219-25; Schnackenburg; John 13:34). ΠΑΛ...
BUT AN OLD COMMANDMENT— Founded in innocent nature before the Fall, recommended by the Mosaic law, and that which you had especially inculcated upon youfrom the beginning of your acquaintance with the...
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...
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 (')...
VERSE 7. BRETHREN, I WRITE NO NEW COMMANDMENT. It is no new commandment I write when I bid you to walk as Christ walked. This is an old commandment. Simply call up, in memory, what you heard from the...
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...
2:7 had (c-16) Or 'ye had.'...
AN OLD COMMANDMENT] cp. 2 John 1:5. Old, because they have known it from the beginning of their Christian life. WHICH YE HAD FROM THE BEGINNING] RV 'which ye heard.'...
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 fourth inference from the doctrine that God is Light analyses more accurately the general expression of 1 John 1:7, _walking in the light._ If Christ is, as in 1 John 2:1, the Paraclete and Propit...
A New Meaning in an Old Commandment. “Beloved, it is no new commandment that I am writing to you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye heard...
ἀγαπητοί, St. John's favourite style (_cf._ 1 John 3:2; 1 John 3:21; 1 John 4:1; 1 John 4:7;...
KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENT OF LOVE 1 John 2:1 It is clearly possible to be kept from known and presumptuous sin. We shall be tempted, for that is an inevitable experience of life in this world; but we m...
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...
FEELINGS ARE NOT A VALID TEST There are those who answer the question, "Do you know God?", by saying, "Yes, I can feel His presence in my heart." While it may help one to feel he has God's presence wi...
(6) 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. (6) The apostle expou...
An old commandment.... and again, a new commandment. He means the commandment of charity, or of the love of God and the love of our neighbour. This he calls both an old and a new precept. It may be ca...
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. (8) Again, a new commandm...
7_Brethren, I write no new commandment _This is an explanation of the preceding doctrine, that to love God is to keep his commandments. And not without reason did he largely dwell on this point. First...
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...
BRETHREN, I WRITE NO NEW COMMANDMENT UNTO YOU,.... Some understand this of faith, which this apostle calls a commandment, 1 John 3:23; but it rather intends the commandment of love, especially to the...
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. Ver. 7. _I write no new...
_I write no new commandment_ Ministers must avoid all suspicion and affectation of novelty in their doctrine. _But an old commandment_ Concerning holiness of life, and loving one another. _Which ye ha...
NO NEW COMMANDMENT; no commandment now revealed to you by me for the first time. FROM THE BEGINNING; from the time when the gospel was first preached to you. The apostle has special reference to the c...
Abiding in the light:...
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....
“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...
3-11 What knowledge of Christ can that be, which sees not that he is most worthy of our entire obedience? And a disobedient life shows there is neither religion nor honesty in the professor. The love...
This commandment must be that which he insists on, 1 JOHN 2:9, and which in different respects he calleth both OLD and NEW. Not _new, _ he says, in opposition to their Gnostic seducers, to intimate he...
1 John 2:7 Brethren G80 write G1125 (G5719) no G3756 new G2537 commandment G1785 you G5213 but G235 old...
‘Beloved, no new commandment do I write to you, but an old commandment which you (plural) had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard.' Having described them as his ‘little...
THE OLD COMMANDMENT AND THE NEW COMMANDMENT (1 JOHN 2:7). Here John stresses the need to stand by what they have originally learned and experienced and by the Light that is already shining among them...
_The new commandment, which is also old: that of brotherly love, 1 John 2:7_. 1 John 2:7. Beloved introducing a new view of the subject by a term appropriate, NO NEW COMMANDMENT WRITE I UNTO YOU, BUT...
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...
BELOVED (αγαπητο). First instance of this favourite form of address in these Epistles (1 John 3:2; 1 John 3:21; 1 John 4:1; 1 John 4:7;...
1 John 2:3 Doing and Knowing. I. St. John assumes that the knowledge of God is as possible, is as real, for human beings as any knowledge they can have of each other. Nay, he goes further than this....
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...
THIS COMMAND. "When I tell you that by obeying the word of Christ, the love for God is made perfect in you, I am writing you an old command. Moses spoke it (Deuteronomy 18:15), and God spoke it at Chr...
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....
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 2:8. NEW COMMANDMENT.—St. John seems to refer to his demand of love to the brethren, as the satisfactory sign of heart-obedience, son-like obedience to the Fathe...
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...
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not (1 John 2:1). Now, he is talking about the purpose of writing is to bring you into fellowship with God, but the thing that breaks fel...
1 John 3:11; 2 John 1:5; Acts 17:19; Deuteronomy 6:5; Galatians 5:13;...
Brethren [α δ ε λ φ ο ι]. The correct reading is ajgaphoi beloved. The first occurrence of this title, which is suggested by the previous words concerning the relation of love. No new commandment [ο υ...
Our apostle here exhorts Christians to the great duty of brotherly love, assuring them, that it was no new commandment which he enjoined them, but that which they were taught, not only in and by the O...