Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 John 2:9
He that saith he is in the light — In Christ, united to him. And hateth his brother — The very name shows the love due to him. Is in darkness until now — Void of Christ, and of all true light.
He that saith he is in the light — In Christ, united to him. And hateth his brother — The very name shows the love due to him. Is in darkness until now — Void of Christ, and of all true light.
Verse 9. _HE THAT SAITH HE IS IN THE LIGHT_] He that professes to be a convert to Christianity, even in the lowest degree; _and_ _hateth his brother_-not only does not love him, but wills and does hi...
HE THAT SAITH HE IS IN THE LIGHT - That he has true religion, or is a Christian. See 1 John 1:7. AND HATETH HIS BROTHER - The word “brother” seems here to refer to those who professed the same religio...
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...
He who says that he is in the light, and who at the same time hates his brother, is still in the darkness. He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is nothing in him which makes him stu...
A PASTOR'S CONCERN (1 John 2:1-2)...
EVEN UNTIL. Greek. _heos_. NOW. Greek. _arti_....
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...
The form of these three verses is similar to that of 1 John 2:3, and still more so to 1 John 1:8-10. In each of these three triplets a case is placed between two statements of the opposite to it; conf...
For the fifth time the Apostle indicates a possible inconsistency of a very gross kind between profession and conduct (1Jn 1:6; 1 John 1:8; 1 John 1:10; 1 John 2:4). We shall have a sixth in...
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
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 doctrine that to the man of enlightenment all conduct is morally indifferent. Against...
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...
9. For the fifth time the Apostle indicates a possible inconsistency of a very gross kind between profession and conduct (1 John 1:6; 1 John 1:8; 1 John 1:10; 1 John 2:4
9–11. The form of these three verses is similar to that of 1 John 2:3-5, and still more so to 1 John 1:8-10. In each of these three triplets a case is placed between two statements of the opposite to...
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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...
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. There is no mean between light and darkness, love and hatred, life and death, God and the world: wherever sp...
VERSE 9. HE THAT SAITH HE IS IN THE LIGHT. When one asserts that he is in this light, governing himself by this teaching of Christ. to love our enemies, and yet hates his brother, such an one is self...
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...
2:9 the (d-15) 'The darkness.' Though a little harsh in these cases in English, 'the' ought to be retained, because it is not simply a state -- a man being in darkness; but a specific darkness, the i...
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...
Here (1 John 2:9) is the chief way in which the old commandment, the new commandment, the word from the beginning, the walk in light would be manifested: brotherly love towards those with whom we have...
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...
He says and perhaps thinks he is in the light, but he has never seen the light; it has never shone on him. ἀδελφόν, on the lips of Jesus a fellow-man (_cf._ Matthew 5:45; Luke 15:30; Luke 15:32), in t...
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...
THOSE IN THE LIGHT LOVE THE BRETHREN The claim to be in the light, therefore in fellowship with God (1 John 1:5-7), is easily tested by our attitude toward our brethren. God displayed such love for th...
(8) He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. (8) Now he comes to the second table, that is, to charity towards one another, and denies that a man has t...
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...
9_He that saith he is in the light _He pursues the same metaphor. He said that love is the only true rule according to which our life is to be formed; he said that this rule or law is presented to us...
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...
HE THAT SAITH HE IS IN THE LIGHT,.... Is in Christ the light, or has the true knowledge of the light of the Gospel, or is illuminated by the Spirit of God; for persons may profess to be enlightened on...
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. Ver. 9. _And hateth, his brother_] As Paul presseth faith, and Peter hope, so John love, those three cardinal...
_He that saith he is in the light_ In Christ; united to him, and truly enlightened by the gospel and the grace of God; _and_ yet _hateth his brother_ (The very name shows the love due to him;) _is in...
IS IN DARKNESS; having neither understood nor received this new commandment....
Abiding in the light:...
HE THAT SAITH HE IS IN THE LIGHT AND HATETH HIS BROTHER IS IN DARKNESS EVEN UNTIL NOW....
“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...
To be IN THE LIGHT, signifies to be under the transforming, governing power of it, as the phrases import of being _in the flesh, _ and _in the Spirit,_ ROMANS 8:9, being expounded by walking _after th...
Cyprian Treatise X On Jealousy and Envy And again: "He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth,...
1 John 2:9 says G3004 (G5723) is G1511 (G5750) in G1722 light G5457 and G2532 hates G3404 ...
‘Again, a new commandment I do write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines. He who says he is in the light and hates hi...
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...
AND HATETH HIS BROTHER (κα τον αδελφον αυτου μισων). Sharp contrast between the love just described and hate. The only way to walk in the light (1 John 1:7) is to have fellowship with God who is lig...
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...
YET HATES HIS BROTHER. "He says this and thinks he is in the light, but he has never seen the light! it has never shone on him, and he still stands in darkness!" [This does not contradict Luke 14:25....
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 2:9 HATES HIS BROTHER. John often uses strongly contrasting terms for emphasis (e.g., light vs. darkness, truth vs. lies). DARKNESS HAS BLINDED HIS EYES. “Darkness” and “blindnes...
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 Corinthians 13:1; 1 John 1:6; 1 John 2:11; 1 John 2:4; 1 John 3:13;
Hateth [μ ι σ ω ν]. The sharp issue is maintained here as in Christ's words, "He that is not with me is against me" (Luke 11:23). Men fall into two classes, those who are in fellowship with God, and t...
Two things are here to be considered, namely, the grace and duty proposed and enforced, and the sin or vice specified and opposed. Observe, 1. The grace proposed, or the duty recommended, namely, the...