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Verse 18. _LITTLE CHILDREN, IT IS THE LAST TIME_] This place is
variously understood. This is the _last dispensation_ of grace and
mercy to mankind; the _present age_ is the _conclusion_ of the Jewis...
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LITTLE CHILDREN - See 1 John 2:1.
IT IS THE LAST TIME - The closing period or dispensation; that
dispensation in which the affairs of the world are ultimately to be
wound up. The apostle does not, how...
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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...
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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...
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A PASTOR'S CONCERN (1 John 2:1-2)...
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LAST TIME. last hour. Compare Acts 2:17.
HAVE. Omit.
ANTICHRIST. Compare John 5:43; 2 Thessalonians 2:3.
SHALL COME. cometh.
ARE THERE. have arisen.
WHEREBY. whence....
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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...
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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...
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18–26. THE PERSONS TO BE AVOIDED;—ANTICHRISTS...
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18. Before ἈΝΤΊΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ omit ὁ with [491]1[492][493]
against [494][495][496].
[491] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the monastery
of S. Catherine on Mount Sinai, and now at Petersburg...
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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...
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1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. GOD IS LIGHT...
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ΠΑΙΔΊΟΝ (G3813) маленький ребенок, дитя
(_см._ 1 John 2:1).
ΈΣΧΆΤΗ ΏΡ (G2078; G5610) последний час.
ΉΚΟΎΣΑΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191)
слышать,
ΆΝΤΊΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ (G500) Антихрист.
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LITTLE CHILDREN, IT IS THE LAST TIME— If these words are to be
connected withthecontext,thenwe may consider them either as connected
with the immediately preceding verses, and as containing one reason...
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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...
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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.
LITTLE CHILDREN - in age. Same...
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VERSE 18. LITTLE CHILDREN, IT IS THE LAST TIME.
As to what is meant by the last time, different views are had. Dr.
Macknight thinks it refers to the end of the Jewish commonwealth. With
this view I ca...
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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...
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2:18 children, (f-2) _ Paidion_ (diminutive); it has reference to
growth. It stands in contrast to 'young men' and 'fathers.' hour,
(a-7) John uses 'hour' continually in the sense of 'time,' as John...
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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...
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THE LAST TIME] RV 'the last hour.' The Apostles undoubtedly
anticipated a coming of Christ in the near future as a vital
possibility, and all generations are enjoined by our Lord's teaching
to do the...
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John writes to all his readers as his *children. He calls them this to
show that he loves them. He loves them as a father loves his children.
He feels that he is responsible for them. He cares as pare...
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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...
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(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)
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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...
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Aug.: “Pueros alloquitur, ut festinent crescere, quia novissima hora
est.… Proficite, currite, crescite, novissima hora est”. 1 John
2:28 puts it beyond doubt that ἐσχάτη ὥρα means “the end
of the wor...
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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...
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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...
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A TROUBLING HOUR
John told his readers he was writing during a last hour, the definite
article not appearing in the original (1 John 2:18). The word hour, or
Greek _horae_, refers to a fixed period of...
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(16) (n) Little children, (17) it is the last time: (18) and as ye
have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many
antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
(16) Now, he t...
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It is the last hour. That is, according to the common interpretation,
the last age of the world, from the coming of Christ to the day of
judgment, and the end of the world, which St. Paul calls the en...
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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...
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18_It is the last time_, or _hour_. He confirms the faithful against
offenses by which they might have been disturbed. Already many sects
had risen up, which rent the unity of faith and caused disorde...
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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...
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LITTLE CHILDREN, IT IS THE LAST TIME,.... Or hour; not of the Jewish
civil and church state, for that had been at an end for some time;
this epistle was written some years after the destruction of
Jer...
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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.
Ver. 18. _Little children_] Child...
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1 John 2:18. "Little children, it is the last time; and as ye have
heard that antichrists shall come, even now there are many
antichrists, whereby we know it is the last time." It is not
reasonable to...
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_Little_, or _young, children_ The former caution against the love of
the world belongs chiefly to old experienced Christians, or those who
have attained some considerable knowledge and experience in...
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THE LAST TIME; the same last time as that spoken of in 1 Timothy 4:1;
2 Timothy 3:1; 2 PETER 3:3. It agrees with the time foretold by our
Lord when iniquity should abound, and false Christs and false...
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LITTLE CHILDREN, IT IS THE LAST TIME; AND AS YE HAVE HEARD THAT
ANTI-CHRIST SHALL COME, EVEN NOW ARE THERE MANY ANTICHRISTS; WHEREBY
WE KNOW THAT IT IS THE LAST TIME....
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A warning against anti-Christian teaching:...
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“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...
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18-23 Every man is an antichrist, who denies the Person, or any of
the offices of Christ; and in denying the Son, he denies the Father
also, and has no part in his favour while he rejects his great
s...
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THE LAST TIME; the time here referred to seems to be the destruction
of Jerusalem, and the finishing of the Jewish state, both civil and
ecclesiastical. In the Greek, the last hour, the approaching pe...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III
Know ye therefore, that every lie is from without, and is not of the
truth. Who is a liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ?
This is Antichrist."[288]...
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1 John 2:18 children G3813 is G2076 (G5748) last G2078 hour G5610 and
G2532 as G2531 heard G191 ...
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‘Little children, it is the last hour, and as you heard that
antichrist is coming, even now have there arisen many antichrists, by
which we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but
th...
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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...
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_The antichrists as errors of the darkness: their mark and character,
with the protection against them._
1 John 2:18. LITTLE CHILDREN: the address is to all; and with
reference to the several characte...
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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...
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IT IS THE LAST HOUR
(εσχατη ωρα εστιν). This phrase only here in N.T.,
though John often uses ωρα for a crisis (John 2:4; John 4:21; John
4:23; John 5:25;...
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1 John 2:18
The Last Time; the Christ; the Antichrist; the Chrism.
I. The Apostles said that a new age was at hand, the universal age,
the age of the Son of man, which would be preceded by a great cr...
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1 John 2:18
The Dispensations.
Consider the leading dispensations under which mankind has been
placed.
I. A single arbitrary restriction, issued merely as a test of
obedience, was the first of them...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THE END IS NEAR! We find this sort of statement made again and again
in the New Testament. We live in the _last days_ (Acts 2:17 and note),
but these have been continuing for almost two thousand years...
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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...
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_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
1 John 2:18. LAST TIME.—R.V. “last hour”; probably it should be
“_a_ last hour.” The period after Christ’s coming in the flesh,
however long it may prove to be, is rega...
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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...
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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...
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1 John 2:1; 1 John 2:22; 1 John 4:3; 1 Peter 1:20; 1 Peter 1:5;...
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Little children [π α ι δ ι α]. See on ver. 13.
The last hour [ε σ χ α τ η ω ρ α]. The phrase only here in
the New Testament. On John's use of wra hour, as marking a critical
season, see John 2:4; John...
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My little children, it is the last time — The last dispensation of
grace, that which is to continue to the end of time, is begun. Ye have
heard that antichrist cometh — Under the term antichrist, or t...
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Our apostle having warned them against the danger of covetousness in
the foregoing verses, he cautions them against the danger of deceit in
these; he tells them, that this is the last time of the Jewi...