Him that is from the beginning; Christ, who is from the beginning. A mature knowledge of Christ in his divine character is appropriate to fathers.
Young men; to whom strength is especially becoming, verse 1 John 2:14.
Little children-known the Father; known God the Father as your father, and thus come into the relation of sons to him. This also is appropriate to children, according to either of the above-named interpretations.
Verse 13. _I WRITE UNTO YOU, FATHERS_] By fathers it is very likely that the apostle means persons who had embraced Christianity on its first promulgation in Judea and in the Lesser Asia, some of the...
I WRITE UNTO YOU, FATHERS - As there were special reasons for writing to children, so there were also for writing to those who were more mature in life. The class here addressed would embrace all thos...
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...
1 JOHN 2:12 slightly breaks the argument. It is prompted by John's desire to remove any impression which the earnestness of his previous words may have created, that he had misgivings as to the spirit...
A PASTOR'S CONCERN (1 John 2:1-2)...
I am writing to you, little children, Because your sins are forgiven you through his name. I am writing to you, fathers, Because you have come to know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to yo...
YOUNG MEN. App-108. OVERCOME. See John 16:33. WICKED. App-128. WRITE. The texts read "wrote". LITTLE CHILDREN. Here and in 1 John 2:18 the word _paidion_ (App-108.) is used....
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...
Threefold Statement of Reasons for Writing "Hitherto St John has stated briefly the main scope of his Epistle. He has shewn what is the great problem of life, and how the Gospel meets it with an answ...
_fathers_ The older men among his readers: comp. Judges 17:10; Judges 18:19; 2Ki 2:12; 2 Kings 6:21; 2 Kings 13:14. The address stands alone in N. T.
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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...
12–14. THREEFOLD STATEMENT OF REASONS FOR WRITING “Hitherto St John has stated briefly the main scope of his Epistle. He has shewn what is the great problem of life, and how the Gospel meets it with a...
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. GOD IS LIGHT...
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DISCOURSE: 2437 THE DIFFERENT GROWTH AND PRIVILEGES OF GOD’S CHILDREN 1 John 2:12. I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake. I write unto you, fathers,...
I WRITE UNTO YOU, FATHERS,— "Because you have heard of his divine dignity and glory, who was in the beginning, who was with God, and himself God; and you are old in grace, have experienced much of the...
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...
I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye ha...
VERSE 13. I WRITE UNTO YOU, FATHERS. Here, John begins the classification of those denominated. Little children, or dear children, or simply, my children. First, it is to those of them somewhat advan...
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...
2:13 known (a-38) _ Ginosko_ . and so throughout chapter, except vers. 11,20,21,29 (first), _ oida_ . Perfect tense here. 'have come to know him, and continue so to do;' and so vers. 4,13,14. known (e...
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...
The person who existed even before time is the *Lord Jesus. He was with God. He was God before the world existed. These whom John calls ‘fathers’ know the *Lord Jesus. All Christians know him and God...
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...
THE THINGS THEY MUST NOT LOVE IF THEY WALKED IN THE LIGHT (1 John 2:12). — The solemnity of the thoughts of 1 John 2:9; 1 John 2:11 is too much for the warm heart of the Apostle. He cannot bear even t...
He now subdivides τεκνία into ποτέρες, _i.e._, mature believers with a long and ever-deepening (ἐγνώκατε) experience behind them, and νεανίσκοι, who, though ἡ ἐπιθυμία τῆς σαρκός is strong within them...
The Appeal of Experience. “I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name's sake; I am writing to you, fathers, because ye have got to know Him that it is...
TRANSIENT DESIRES, ABIDING LIFE 1 John 2:12 There are gradations in Christian experience-the child, the father, the young man. The note of the child is the glad sense of forgiveness; of the father, a...
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...
(10) I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him [that is] from the beginning. (11) I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. (12) I write unto you, little childre...
I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. (13) I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young...
13_I write unto you, fathers _He comes now to enumerate different ages, that he might shew that what he taught was suitable to every one of them. For a general address sometimes produces less effect;...
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...
I WRITE UNTO YOU, FATHERS,.... Not merely in age, though they might be men in years who are here intended, or only with respect to their long standing in the church, which might be the case; though pe...
I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him _that is_ from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye h...
Here he distributes the whole body of Christians into three classes, according to their different standings in the faith, and their proficiency in Christian knowledge and holiness; namely, _fathers, y...
I WRITE UNTO YOU, FATHERS, BECAUSE YE HAVE KNOWN HIM THAT IS FROM THE BEGINNING. I WRITE UNTO YOU, YOUNG MEN, BECAUSE YE HAVE OVERCOME THE WICKED ONE. I WRITE UNTO YOU, LITTLE CHILDREN, BECAUSE YE HAV...
An appeal to young and old:...
“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...
12-14 As Christians have their peculiar states, so they have peculiar duties; but there are precepts and obedience common to all, particularly mutual love, and contempt of the world. The youngest sin...
OLBGrk; UNTO FATHERS, because to such belong much experience, and the knowledge of ancient things, he ascribeth the knowledge of HIM WHO IS the Ancient of days, FROM THE BEGINNING, and than whom none...
1 John 2:13 write G1125 (G5719) you G5213 fathers G3962 Because G3754 known G1097 (G5758) from G575 beginning...
I have written to you, little children, because you know the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are s...
‘I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one.' To ‘the fathers', the older men, he feels that he need do...
THEY KNOW THE FATHER AND THE ETERNAL WORD AND MUST BEWARE OF LOVING THE WORLD (1 JOHN 2:12). Having exhorted them of the need to remain true to Him and to the Word Who ‘is' from the beginning, and to...
_Testimony to the reality of their religion; addressed to the church generally, and specially under two aspects._ 1 John 2:12-13. I WRITE UNTO YOU, LITTLE CHILDREN, BECAUSE YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN YOU...
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...
FATHERS (πατερες). Those mature believers with long and rich experience (εγνωκατε, ye have come to know and still know).HIM WHICH IS FROM THE BEGINNING (τον απ' αρχης). See 1 John 1:1 as explaini...
LITTLE CHILDREN The little ones of the family. (_ See Scofield) - (1 John 2:28). _...
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...
FATHERS. "I write to you mature Christians (both men and women) because you do know the Eternal Jesus the Christ." YOUNG MEN. "I write to you less-mature Christians (both men and women), because you h...
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....
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 2:12 John knows his message is greater than the evil he describes. Some view LITTLE CHILDREN, FATHERS, and YOUNG MEN as symbo
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 2:12 indicate the things which the disciples must _not_ love, if they would walk in the light, and be sons with the “Only Begotten.” 1 John 2:12. SINS ARE FORGI...
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 1:1; 1 John 2:1; 1 John 2:12; 1 John 2:14; 1 John 2:3;...
Fathers. Indicating age and authority. Have known [ε γ ν ω κ α τ ε] Rev., correctly, ye know. Knowledge is the characteristic of fathers; knowledge as the fruit of experience. Ye have perceived, ther...
The address to spiritual fathers, young men, and little children is first proposed in this verse, wherein he says, I write to you, fathers: I write to you, young men: I write to you, little children:...