1 John 1:1

THE FIRST GENERAL EPISTLE OF JOHN.

Chronological Notes relative to this Epistle.

-Year of the Constantinopolitan era of the world, or that used by the Byzantine historians, and other eastern Writers, 5577.

-Year of the Alexandrian era of the world, 5571.

-Year of the Antiochian era of the world, 5561.

-Year of the world, according to Archbishop Usher, 4073.

-Year of the world, according to Eusebius, in his Chronicon, 4297.

-Year of the minor Jewish era of the world, or that in common use, 3829.

-Year of the Greater Rabbinical era of the world, 4428.

-Year from the Flood, according to Archbishop Usher, and the English Bible, 2417.

-Year of the Cali yuga, or Indian era of the Deluge, 3171.

-Year of the era of Iphitus, or since the first commencement of the Olympic games, 1009.

-Year of the era of Nabonassar, king of Babylon, 818.

-Year of the CCXIIth Olympiad, 1.

-Year from the building of Rome, according to Fabius Pictor, 816.

-Year from the building of Rome, according to Frontinus, 820.

-Year from the building of Rome, according to the Fasti Capitolini, 821.

-Year from the building of Rome, according to Varro, which was that most generally used, 822.

-Year of the era of the Seleucidae, 381.

-Year of the Caesarean era of Antioch, 117.

-Year of the Julian era, 114.

-Year of the Spanish era, 107.

-Year from the birth of Jesus Christ, according to Archbishop Usher, 73.

-Year of the vulgar era of Christ's nativity, 69.

-Year of Vologesus, king of the Parthians, 20.

-Year of the Dionysian period, or Easter Cycle, 70.

-Year of the Grecian Cycle of nineteen years, or Common Golden Number, 13; or the fifth embolismic.

-Year of the Jewish Cycle of nineteen years, 10; or the year before the fourth embolismic.

-Year of the Solar Cycle, 22.

-Dominical Letter, it being the first year after the Bissextile, or Leap Year, A.

-Day of the Jewish Passover, the twenty-fourth of March, which happened in this year on the sixth day after the Jewish Sabbath.

-Easter Sunday, the twenty-sixth of March.

-Epact, or age of the moon on the 22d of March, (the day of the earliest Easter Sunday possible,) 12.

-Epact, according to the present mode of computation, or the moon's age on New Year's day, or the Calends of January, 20.

-Monthly Epacts, or age of the moon on the Calends of each month respectively, (beginning with January,) 20, 22, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 27, 28, 0, 0, 2, 2.

-Number of Direction, or the number of days from the twenty-first of March to the Jewish Passover, 3.

-In this year reigned four Roman emperors, viz., Galba, from Jan. 1 to Jan. 15, Otho ninety days, Vitellius eight months, and Vespasian for the remainder of the year.

-Roman Consuls, Servius Sulpicius Galba Augustus, the second time, and Titus Vinius Rufinus, from Jan. 1 to the death of Galba, Jan. 15; Salvius Otho Augustus, and L. Salvius Otho Titianus, from Jan. 15 to March 1; L. Virginius Rufus, and Vopiscus Pompeius Silvanus, from March 1 to May 1; Titus Arrius Antoninus and P. Marius Celsus, the second time, from May 1 to Sept. 1; C. Fabius Valens and Aulus Alienus Coecina, from Sept. 1, the former holding the Consulship to Nov. 1, the latter being succeeded by Roscius Regulus, on Oct. 31; Cn. Caecilius Simplex and C. Quintius Atticus, from Nov. 1, to the end of the year.

CHAPTER I.

The testimony of the apostle concerning the reality of the

person and doctrine of Christ; and the end for which he bears

this testimony, 1-4.

God is light, and none can have fellowship with him who do not

walk in the light; those who walk in the light are cleansed

from all unrighteousness by the blood of Christ, 5-7.

No man can say that he has not sinned; but God is faithful and

just to cleanse from all unrighteousness them who confess their

sins, 8-10.

NOTES ON CHAP. I.

Verse 1 John 1:1. That which was from the beginning] That glorious personage, JESUS CHRIST the LORD, who was from eternity; him, being manifested in the flesh, we have heard proclaim the doctrine of eternal life; with our own eyes have we seen him, not transiently, for we have looked upon him frequently; and our hands have handled-frequently touched, his person; and we have had every proof of the identity and reality of this glorious being that our senses of hearing, ὁ ακηκοαμεν, seeing, ὁ ἑωρακαμεν τοις οφθαλμοις ἡμων, and feeling, και αἱ χειρες ἡμων εψηλαφησαν could possibly require.