These things have I written unto you -These things" probably mean the warnings about the antichrists, not the whole Epistle. -I have written", or -I wrote", is the epistolary aorist as in 1 John 2:21.

that seduce you Better, that lead you astray, i.e. that are endeavouring to do so. It is the active of the verb which is used in 1 John 1:8 (see note there); and the present participle, which indicates the tendency and habit, but not the success, of the antichristian teachers.

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