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1 John 2:26
I write you this. "I want to warn you about the Enemies of Christ. Be on your guard against them!!! They want to steal your promise!!!"
I write you this. "I want to warn you about the Enemies of Christ. Be on your guard against them!!! They want to steal your promise!!!"
Verse 26. _THESE_ THINGS _HAVE I WRITTEN_] Either meaning the whole epistle, or what is contained in the preceding verses, from the beginning of the 18th to the end of the 25th. 1 John 2:18 _THEM TH...
THESE THINGS HAVE I WRITTEN UNTO YOU CONCERNING THEM THAT SEDUCE YOU - Respecting their character, and in order to guard you against their arts. The word “seduce” means to lead astray; and it here ref...
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)...
SEDUCE. lead astray, or cause to err....
_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 2:2...
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...
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...
18–26. THE PERSONS TO BE AVOIDED;—ANTICHRISTS...
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...
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...
ΤΑΥ͂ΤΑ ἜΓΡΑΨΑ. This is not parallel to ἔγραψα in 1 John 2:14; 1 John 2:21 where there is no ταῦτα. Here the reference must be to the Epistle, or rather to the section about the antichrists (18–25): 1...
ΈΓΡΑΨΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΓΡΆΦΩ (G1125) писать, ΠΛΑΝΏΝΤΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΠΛΑΝΆΩ (G4105) сбивать с толку, обманывать. Part, имеет конативное значение: "пытающийся обмануть" (Marshall). _Praes...
THESE THINGS HAVE I WRITTEN, &C.— By _these things_ some understand all that is said from 1 John 2:18 to this place; others understand this whole epistle. If some of the Christians to whom St. John wr...
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...
These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. THESE THINGS - (1 John 2:18.) HAVE I WRITTEN - resumed from ; . SEDUCE YOU - try to lead yo...
VERSE 26. THESE THINGS HAVE I WRITTEN. The things concerning antichrists, opposers of Christ, false teachers those that would lead you astray these things, so written, commence at the 18th verse and...
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...
John writes about the false teachers. He warns his readers about them. These false teachers tried to lead people away from the truth. John was eager to correct the errors that they taught. He wants to...
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)
ἔγραψα, see note on 1 John 2:21. τῶν πλανώντων, the heretical teachers. Pres. partic., “are leading astray” but unsuccessfully....
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...
(25) These [things] have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. (25) The same Spirit who endues the elect with the knowledge of the truth and sanctifies them, gives them the gift of pers...
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...
26_These things have I written unto you _The apostle excuses himself again for having admonished them who were well endued with knowledge and judgment. But he did this, that they might apply for the g...
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...
THESE [THINGS] HAVE I WRITTEN UNTO YOU,.... The little children, who were most likely to be imposed upon by antichrists and deceivers: CONCERNING THEM THAT SEDUCE YOU. The Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopi...
These _things_ have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. Ver. 26. _That seduce you_] That carry you into byways, highways to hell....
_These things_ From 1 John 2:21; _have I written unto you_ St. John, according to his custom, begins and ends with the same form, and having finished a kind of parenthesis, (1 John 2:21,) continues (1...
Abiding in Christ:...
THESE THINGS HAVE I WRITTEN UNTO YOU CONCERNING THEM THAT SEDUCE YOU....
“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...
So much he thought requisite to be said, in respect of their danger by seducers, though their safety was principally to depend upon what he next mentions... SEE POOLE ON "1 JOHN 2:27"....
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‘These things have I written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.' ‘These things' presumably refers to the whole of the letter as in 1 John 1:4. It is a warning against those who would...
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...
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...
1 John 2:26-27. The blessedness of ‘eternal life' has brought this sad protest against error to an end. But the writer's heart is lull, and he introduces a final exhortation and encouragement, in the...
CONCERNING THEM THAT WOULD LEAD YOU ASTRAY (περ των πλανωντων υμας). "Concerning those that are trying to lead you astray" (conative use of the present active articular participle of πλαναω. See 1...
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...
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 3:7; 1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Corinthians 11:13; 2 John 1:7; 2 Peter
These things — From 1 John 2:21. I have written to you — St. John, according to his custom, begins and ends with the same form, and having finished a kind of parenthesis, 1 John 2:20, continues, 1 Joh...
Observe here the pious care which St. John expresses for their preservation from heretics and seducers, THESE THINGS HAVE. WRITTEN TO YOU CONCERNING THEM THAT SEDUCE YOU. That is, to arm them against...