2 John 1:1
THE ELDER; John, the writer of this epistle. Compare 1 Peter 5:1. ELECT LADY; one chosen of God and distinguished as a Christian.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ELDER; John, the writer of this epistle. Compare 1 Peter 5:1. ELECT LADY; one chosen of God and distinguished as a Christian.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE TRUTH'S SAKE; this lady's family were beloved on account of their love of the gospel and their practice of its duties.... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT I FOUND OF THY CHILDREN; when I found some of thy children. The apostle had learned with joy that this was true of some of them. Friends of the truth are friends of each other, and earnestly desire each other's highest good; and when they hear that the children of their friends have embraced th... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT AS THOUGH I WROTE A NEW COMMANDMENT; compare 1 John 2:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS IS LOVE-HIS COMMANDMENTS; the proper expression and evidence of love to God and men, is the keeping of his commandments. Compare 1 John 5:2-3. THIS IS THE COMMANDMENT; what the apostle has just declared; that love, namely, which consists in obedience to God's commandments.... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT JESUS CHRIST IS COME IN THE FLESH; see note to 1 John 4:2. Those who pretend to be religious teachers, and yet do not believe that Jesus Christ has come into the world and redeemed us unto God by his blood, are deceivers. Whatever love they may profess towards God or men, they are opposers of C... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT WE LOST NOT; through the seductions of these deceivers leading you to depart from the truth, any portion of the blessings we have obtained, or which the gospel offers.... [ Continue Reading ]
DOCTRINE OF CHRIST; that taught by him and his apostles, especially his having come in the flesh and made an atonement for the sin of the world. HATH NOT GOD; not a right knowledge of him, nor an interest in his favor.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS DOCTRINE; of Christ, as taught by him and his apostles. RECEIVE HIM NOT INTO YOUR HOUSE; do nothing to aid or encourage him in his propagation of error.... [ Continue Reading ]
BIDDETH HIM GOD SPEED; if one aid or encourage another in sinning, he becomes partaker of his guilt. Those teachers who reject the great truths taught by Christ and his apostles, of his divinity, incarnation, and atonement; of justification by faith in him, regeneration by the Spirit of God, and the... [ Continue Reading ]