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1 JOHN 2:4 h` avlh,qeia {A}
Instead of “the truth,” several witnesses (Y 436 945 1505 _al_)
weaken the statement by reading “truth”; on the other hand, a and
a few other witnesses strengthen it by e...
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Verse 1 John 2:4. _HE THAT SAITH, I KNOW HIM_] This is a severe blow
against those false teachers, and against all pretenders to religious
knowledge, who live under the power of their sins; and agains...
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HE THAT SAITH, I KNOW HIM - He who professes to be acquainted with the
Saviour, or who professes to be a Christian.
AND KEEPETH NOT HIS COMMANDMENTS - What he has appointed to be
observed by his peop...
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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...
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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...
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HEREBY WE KNOW THAT WE KNOW HIM.
What we need is knowledge. It is very, unsatisfactory to only think
that Christ is the Son of God and our Savior. We want to _know_ upon
whom we have believed. To _kn...
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And it is by this that we know that we have come to know him--if we
keep his commandments. He who says, "I have come to know him" and who
does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not...
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A PASTOR'S CONCERN (1 John 2:1-2)...
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TRUTH. See 1 John 1:6....
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The previous statement is enforced by denying the opposite of it. The
construction, -he that saith," -he that loveth," &c. now takes the
place of -if we say," -if we walk," &c., but without change of...
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1 John 2:1-6. Obedience to God by Imitation of Christ
1 6. The Apostle is still treating of the condition and conduct of the
believer as determined by his walking in the light; there is no break
betwe...
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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
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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...
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1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. GOD IS LIGHT...
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1 John 2:1-6. OBEDIENCE TO GOD BY IMITATION OF CHRIST
1–6. The Apostle is still treating of the condition and conduct of
the believer as determined by his walking in the light; there is no
break betwe...
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4. Before ἜΓΝΩΚΑ insert ὍΤΙ with [452][453][454] against
[455][456][457]. [458] omits ἘΝ ΤΟΎΤΩΙ before Ἡ� and
inserts τοῦ θεοῦ after it.
[452] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the mon...
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ΛΈΓΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить.
Subst. part., подчеркивает характерную
черту. Переход _от pl._ к _sing._ обозначает,
что принцип применяется и проверяется
на жизни отбельно взятого...
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DISCOURSE: 2434
THE TRUE TEST OF LOVE TO GOD
1 John 2:3. _Hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his
commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his
commandments, is a liar, and...
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HEREBY WE KNOW
PART II
1 John 1:8-10; 1 John 2:1-29
God Is Light. To Walk In The Light
Is To Have Fellowship With Him
Fellowship Is Tested By Our Sharing
of God's Attitude Toward:
1.
Personal Guil...
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He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a
liar, and the truth is not in him.
I KNOW - `I have knowledge of (perfect) Him' (cf. )....
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VERSE 4. HE THAT SAITH, I KNOW HIM, AND KEEPETH NOT.
Any one who asserts that he knows God, and does not keep his
commandments, John says of such an one two things: 1. He is a liar. 2.
The truth is no...
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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...
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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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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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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...
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μὴ τηρῶν, in classical Greek a gentle hypothesis, merely
suggesting a possible case; but in later Greek μή is the regular
negative with participles. It was an actual error, else the Apostle
would hard...
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The Proof of our Interest in Christ's Propitiation and Advocacy.
“And herein we get to know that we know Him if we observe His
commandments. He that saith ‘I know Him,' and observeth not His
commandme...
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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...
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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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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...
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(3) He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a
liar, and the truth is not in him.
(3) Holiness, that is, a life ordered according to the prescript of
God's commandments, howeve...
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_He that says he knoweth him, &c. To know, in this and many other
places, is not taken for a speculative knowledge alone, but is joined
with a love of God, and an earnest desire of serving him and kee...
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And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
(4) He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a
liar, and the truth is not in him. (5) But whoso keepeth his...
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4_He that saith, I know him _How does he prove that they are liars who
boast that they have faith without piety? even by the contrary effect;
for he has already said, that the knowledge of God is effi...
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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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HE THAT SAITH I KNOW HIM,.... God or Christ, as the Gnostics did, who
pretended to great, even perfect, knowledge of divine things:
AND KEEPETH NOT HIS COMMANDMENTS; which the above persons had no
re...
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He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a
liar, and the truth is not in him.
Ver. 4. _He that saith, I know him_] Here he disputeth against
Verbalists and Solifidians. SeeJame...
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_Hereby we do know that we_, truly and savingly, _know him_ As he is
the Advocate, the righteous One, the Propitiation; _if we keep his
commandments_ Particularly those of faith and love. _He that sai...
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Keeping Christ's commandments:...
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HE THAT SAITH, I KNOW HIM, AND KEEPETH NOT HIS COMMANDMENTS IS A LIAR,
AND THE TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM....
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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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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...
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A LIAR; a false, hypocritical pretender, as 1 JOHN 1:6....
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Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III
Nos enim didicimus libertatem, qua Dominus noster nos liberat a
voluptatibus, eta cupiditatibus, et aliis perturbationibus solvens.
"Qui dicit: Novi Dominum, e...
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1 John 2:4 says G3004 (G5723) know G1097 (G5758) Him G846 and G2532
not G3361 keep G5083 ...
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HOW THEN CAN WE KNOW THAT WE TRULY KNOW CHRIST? (1 JOHN 2:3).
Many were claiming that they knew God, that they had special knowledge
of Him, that through their own particular religious ordinances they...
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I KNOW HIM
(Εγνωκα αυτον). Perfect active indicative with recitative
οτ like quotation marks just before it. This is one of the pious
platitudes, cheap claptrap of the Gnostics, who would bob up in...
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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....
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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._
That you may abstain from it, and abhor it, and not indulge in
anything that would lead you towards it.
1 John 2:1....
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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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IF SOMEONE SAYS. Talk is cheap! Actions really show what a person does
_in fact_ believe! The one who claims to know God, but does not obey
God's commands, proves both that he is a liar and that he do...
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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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_He that saith he knoweth Him_, that is, with true and saving
knowledge, such as leads to eternal life, _and keepeth not His
commandments is a liar._ As the Apostle said (Rom 1:21) of the
philosophers...
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PROVISION FOR THE SINNING OF BELIEVERS
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
FIRMLY does St. John declare that the Christian should not sin, and
must not sin. But he clearly recognises that Christians do...
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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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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...
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1 John 1:10; 1 John 1:6; 1 John 1:8; 1 John 2:9; 1 John 4:20;...
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A liar. Compare we lie, 1 John 1:6.
In him [ε ν τ ο υ τ ω]. Emphatic. Lit., in this one the truth
is not. See on 1 8. Keepeth His word [τ η ρ η α υ τ ο υ τ ο
ν λ ο γ ο ν]. Note the changed phrase : wo...