Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
1 John 2:23
But he that acknowledgeth the Son, &c.— Our translators have printed this passage in Italics; but it is found in many authentic manuscripts, as well as in the Syriac, Vulgate, and other versions.
But he that acknowledgeth the Son, &c.— Our translators have printed this passage in Italics; but it is found in many authentic manuscripts, as well as in the Syriac, Vulgate, and other versions.
1 JOHN 2:23 o` o`mologw/n … e;cei Because of homoeoteleuton (to.n pate,ra e;cei … to.n pate,ra e;cei), K L and most minuscules, followed by the Textus Receptus, have accidentally omitted the second p...
Verse 23. _WHOSOEVER DENIETH THE SON_] He who denies Jesus to be the Son of God, and consequently the Christ or Messiah, _he hath_ _not the Father_-he can have no birth from above, he cannot be enroll...
WHOSOEVER DENIETH THE SON, THE SAME HATH NOT THE FATHER - That is, has no just views of the Father, and has no evidence of his friendship. It is only by the Son of God that the Father is made known to...
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...
Who is the liar but the man who denies that Jesus is the Anointed One of God? Antichrist is he who denies the Father and the Son. Anyone who denies the Son does not even have the Father; and everyone...
A PASTOR'S CONCERN (1 John 2:1-2)...
THE SAME. he. NOT. Greek. _oude._ HE THAT, &C. This clause is added by all the texts. ACKNOWLEDGETH. confesseth, as Matthew 10:32, &c....
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 previous statement is emphasized by an expansion of it stated both negatively and positively. The expansion consists in declaring that to deny the Son is not merely to do that, and indeed not mere...
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...
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 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. GOD IS LIGHT...
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...
23. After ἜΧΕΙ add Ὁ ὉΜΟΛΟΓΩ͂Ν ΤῸΝ ΥἹῸΝ ΚΑῚ ΤῸΝ ΠΑΤΈΡΑ ἜΧΕΙ with [504][505][506][507] and Versions against [508][509]. Omission through _homoeoteleuton_. [504] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf i...
ΆΡΝΟΎΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΆΡΝΈΟΜΑΙ (G629) говорить нет, отрицать, ΌΜΟΛΟΓΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΌΜΟΛΟΓΈΩ (G3670) соглашаться, исповедовать (_см._ 1 John 1:9). Subst. part. с арт. обо...
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...
Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. 'Everyone who denieth the Son, hath not the Father either' (1 John 4:2); 'inasmuch...
VERSE 23. WHOSOEVER DENIETH THE SON. Any one who shall deny that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, does not acknowledge the Father, but rejects his testimony given by him at the baptism of Jesus a...
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...
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...
Some people said that they knew God. But they denied the Son. Therefore, they have neither the *Father nor the Son. We know God only by the *Lord Jesus Christ. If we do not accept Jesus as the Son of...
(5) THE GLORIOUS RESULTS OF GOD’S LOVE REALISED THROUGH THE SONSHIP (1 John 2:19). (_a_) _The comfort of assurance_ (1 John 2:19). (_b_) _The grant of our requests_ (1 John 2:22). (_c_)
(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)
Since the Father is manifested and interpreted in the Son. _cf._ John 1:18; John 14:9....
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...
(s) Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [ (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also]. (s) They deceive themselves, and also deceive others, who say that the Mosle...
_He who denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist: is in a special manner an adversary of Christ and the Christian religion, when he denies Jesus to be the Messias, or to have been from etern...
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...
Now this is a remarkable sentence, and ought to be reckoned among the first axioms of our religion. yea, when we have confessed that there is one true God, this second article ought necessarily to be...
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...
WHOSOEVER DENIETH THE SON,.... Jesus Christ to be the true, proper, natural, essential, and eternal Son of God: THE SAME HATH NOT THE FATHER; or does not hold the Father; or "believe the Father", as...
Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: _(but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also_. Ver. 23. _The same hath not the Father_] _See Trapp on "_ Joh 5:23 _"_ Mahomet spe...
_I have not written unto you_ In the manner I have done; _because ye know not the truth_ In which case I must have entered largely into the discussion of this matter; _but_, on the contrary, I have co...
HATH NOT THE FATHER; not right views of him, no supreme regard to him, and no interest in his favor. Such is the union between the Father and the Son, that men who reject and oppose the Son, reject an...
WHOSOEVER DENIETH THE SON, THE SAME HATH NOT THE FATHER; BUT HE THAT ACKNOWLEDGETH THE SON HATH THE FATHER ALSO....
Anti-Christian characteristics and the Christian's attitude:...
“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...
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...
To have the Father and the Son, is, by faith, love, and obedience, vitally to adhere to the one and the other. The latter part of this verse, though it be not in the ordinary Greek copies, is in some...
Cyprian Treatise XI Exhortation to Martyrdom Addressed to Fortunatus John too: "Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father; he that acknowledgeth the Son, hath both the Son and the Fathe...
1 John 2:23 Whoever G3956 denies G720 (G5740) Son G5207 not G3761 have G2192 (G5719) Father G3962 acknowledges...
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...
‘I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because (or ‘that') no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? Th...
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 2:22-23. WHO IS THE LIAR, BUT HE THAT DENIETH THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST? If every lie comes from another source than the truth, what is that source? Our Saviour said of one:' He is a liar, and t...
HATH NOT THE FATHER (ουδε τον πατερα εχε). "Not even does he have the Father" or God (2 John 1:9).HE THAT CONFESSETH THE SON (ο ομολογων τον υιον). Because the Son reveals the Father (John 1:18; J...
1 John 2:23 The Place of the Doctrine of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit in Christian Ethics. I. St. John is especially occupied throughout his Gospel in setting forth the ground and principle of...
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...
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...
FOR WHOEVER. "Some reject the Son and claim to have the Father. This cannot be true! If you reject the Son, you have also rejected the Father who sent Him!!!" WHOEVER ACCEPTS. "If you accept the Son,...
1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 2:23 WHOEVER CONFESSES THE SON HAS THE FATHER ALSO (compare 1 John 5:13; see note on John 3:18). The world’s religions
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 2:20. UNCTION FROM THE HOLY ONE.—Or, “anointing.” The association of the Spirit coming to a man, when anointed to a Divine office, may be seen in the case of 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 2:22; 1 John 4:15; 2 John 1:9; John 10:30; John 14:10;...
Hath not the Father [ο υ δ ε τ ο ν π α τ ε ρ α ε χ ε ι]. Properly, "hath not even the Father," though he professes to reverence the Father while rejecting the Son. Compare John 8:42....
Whosoever denieth the eternal Son of God, he hath not communion with the Father; but he that truly and believingly acknowledgeth the Son, hath communion with the Father also....