Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ (by grace ye are saved,) 5. VER. 15. Πᾶς ὁ μισῶν τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ, ἀνθρω ποκτόνος ἐστί· καὶ οἴδατε ὅτι πᾶς ἀνθρωποκτόνος οὐκ ἔχει ζωὴν αἰώνιον ἐν αὐτῷ μένουσαν. a Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. a Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council; But whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire, Matt. v. 21, 22. Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like : of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God, Gal. v. 21. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone : which is the second death, Rev. xxi. 8. VER. 16. Ἐν τούτῳ ἐγνώκαμεν τὴν ἀγάπην, ὅτι ἐκεῖνος ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν τὴν ψυχὴν αὑτοῦ ἔθηκε· καὶ ἡμεῖς ὀφείλομεν ὑπὲς τῶν ἀδελφῶν τὰς ψυχὰς τιθέναι. ↑ Hereby perceive we the love of God, b because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. a See on John iii. ver. 16. clause 1. After A. D. 90. and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? a See on Matt. v. ver. 42. b See ver. 10. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments, v. 1, 2. VER. 18. Τεκνία μου, μὴ ἀγαπῶμεν λόγῳ μηδὲ γλώσση, ἀλλ ̓ ἔργῳ καὶ ἀληθείᾳ. a My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. a See on chap. ii. ver. 1. clause 1. b See on Mark ix. ver. 50. clause 3. VER. 19. Καὶ ἐν τούτῳ γινώσκομεν ὅτι ἐκ τῆς ἀλη θείας ἐσμεν, καὶ ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ πείσομεν τὰς καρδίας ἡμῶν. a And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. • Gr. persuade. a See on chap. ii. ver. 3. VER. 20. Ὅτι ἐὰν καταγινώσκη ἡμῶν ἡ καρδία, ὅτι μείζων ἐστὶν ὁ Θεὸς τῆς καρδίας ἡμῶν, καὶ γινώσκει πάντα. For a if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, b and knoweth all things. a See on Rom. ii. ver. 15. clause 2. b See on Heb. iv. ver. 13. clause 1. VER. 21. ̓Αγαπητοὶ, ἐὰν ἡ καρδία ἡμῶν μὴ κατα b See on Matt. xx. ver. 28. clauses γινώσκῃ ἡμῶν, παῤῥησίαν ἔχομεν πρὸς τὸν 3, 4. See on Mark ix. ver. 50. clause 3. VER. 17. *Ος δ' ἂν ἔχῃ τὸν βίον τοῦ κόσμου, καὶ Dewen Tiv ådeλpòv aurou xesíav Exovra, καὶ κλείσῃ τὰ σπλάγχνα αὐτοῦ ἀπ' αὐτοῦ, πῶς ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ Θεοῦ μένει ἐν αὐτῷ; But whoso hath this world's good, Θεόν. a Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. a Let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water, Heb. x. 22. After A. D. 90. 1 JOHN III. 22-24.1.14. After A. D. 90. CHAP. IV.-VER. 1. ̓Αγαπήτοι, μὴ παντὶ πνεύματι πιστ τεύετε, ἀλλὰ δοκιμάζετε τὰ πνεύματα, εἰ ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστιν· ὅτι πολλοὶ ψευδοπρο φῆται ἐξεληλύθασιν εἰς τὸν κόσμον. * Beloved, believe not every spirit, b but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. a See on Matt. xxiv. ver. 4. b These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so, Acts xvii. 11. | a For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth, will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders, 2 Thess. ii. 7-9. See chap. ii. ver. 18. ; 29.; 2 John 7. VER. 4. Ὑμεῖς ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστε, τεκνία, καὶ νενικήκατε αὐτούς· ὅτι μείζων ἐστὶν ὁ ἐν ὑμῖν ἢ ὁ ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ. a Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: b because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. a See on Matt. v. ver. 9. clause 2. b And I give unto them eternal life: and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and none is able to After A. D. 90. 1 JOHN IV. 4-14. After A. D. 90. pluck them out of my Father's hand. | ἀπέσταλκεν ὁ Θεὸς εἰς τὸν κόσμον, ἵνα I and my Father are one, John x. ζήσωμεν δι' αὐτοῦ. 28-30. c See on John xii. ver. 31. Αγαπητοί, ἀγαπῶμεν ἀλλήλους, ὅτι ἡ ἀγάπη ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστι· καὶ πᾶς ὁ ἀγαπῶν, ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ γεγέννηται, καὶ γινώσκει τὸν Θεόν a Beloved, let us love one another : for love is of God; and every one that loveth c is born of God, a and knoweth God. a See on Mark ix. ver. 50. clause 3. b But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Gal. v. 22. But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you; for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another, 1 Thess. iv. 9. c See on John i, ver. 13. clause 5. VER. 8. a In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. a See on John iii. ver. 16. VER. 10. Ἐν τούτῳ ἐστὶν ἡ ἀγάπη, οὐχ ὅτι ἡμεῖς ἠγαπήσαμεν τὸν Θεὸν, ἀλλ ̓ ὅτι αὐτὸς ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἀπέστειλε τὸν υἱὸν αὑτοῦ ἱλασμὲν περὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν. Herein is love, a not that we loved bund sent God, but that he loved us, his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. a See on Rom. v. ver. 10. clause 1. b See on Rom. iii. ver. 25. clause 1. VER. 11. ̓Αγαπητοί, εἰ οὕτως ὁ Θεὸς ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἡμεῖς ὀφείλομεν ἀλλήλους ἀγαπάν. a Beloved, if God so loved us, b we ought also to love one another. a See on Matt. xviii. ver. 33. VER. 12. Θεὸν οὐδεὶς πώποτε τεθέαται. Ἐὰν ἀγα πῶμεν ἀλλήλους, ὁ Θεὸς ἐν ἡμῖν μένει, καὶ ἡ ἀγάπη αὐτοῦ τετελειωμένη ἐστὶν ἐν ἡμῖν. a No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. a See on John i. ver. 18. clause 1. b See on John xiv. ver. 18. VER. 13. Ἐν τούτω γινώσκομεν ὅτι ἐν αὐτῷ μέτ νομεν, καὶ αὐτὸς ἐν ἡμῖν, ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ Πνεύ ματος αὑτοῦ δέδωκεν ἡμῖν. a Hereby know we that we dwell in Ὁ μὴ ἀγαπῶν, οὐκ ἔγνω τὸν Θεόν· ὅτι | him, and he in us, because he hath given ὁ Θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν. us of his Spirit. a See on Rom. viii. ver. 16. clauses 1, 2. VER. 14. Καὶ ἡμεῖς τεθεάμεθα, καὶ μαρτυροῦμεν ὅτι ὁ πατὴρ ἀπέσταλκε τὸν υἱὸν σωτῆρα τοῦ κόσμου. And we have seen and do testify After A. D. 90. 1 JOHN IV. 14—21.—v. 1. that the Father sent b the Son to be the Saviour of the world. a See on John viii. ver. 42. clause 3. After A. D. 90. a See on Luke i. ver. 6. b See on Rom. v. ver. 5. clause 1. See on Matt. x. ver. 15. clause 2. b See on Matt. xiv. ver. 33. clause 3. hope in him purifieth himself, even as d And every man that hath this c See on Matt. i. ver. 21. clause 3. VER. 15. Ος ἂν ὁμολογήσῃ ὅτι Ἰησοῦς ἐστιν ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὁ Θεὸς ἐν αὐτῷ μένει, καὶ αὐτὸς ἐν τῷ Θεῷ. • Whosoever shall confess b that Jesus is the Son of God, e God dwelleth in him, and he in God. a See on Matt. x. ver. 32. clause 1. VER. 16. Καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐγνώκαμεν καὶ πεπιστεύκαμεν τὴν ἀγάπην ἣν ἔχει ὁ Θεὸς ἐν ἡμῖν. Ὁ Θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστί· καὶ ὁ μένων ἐν τῇ ἀγάπῃ, ἐν τῷ Θεῷ μένει, καὶ ὁ Θεὸς ἐν αὐτῷ. a And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. b God is love; and he that dwelleth in love c dwelleth in God, and God in him. a Now they have known that all things, whatsoever thou hast given . me, are of thee: For I have given unto them the words which thou garest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came. out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me, John xvii. 7, 8. Ο righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it; that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them, 25, 26. b See on Rom. ii. ver 4. clause 2. VER. 17. Ἐν τούτῳ τετελείωται ἡ ἀγάπη μεθ' ἡμῶν, ἵνα παῤῥησίαν ἔχωμεν ἐν τῇ ἡμέρα τῆς κρίσεως· ὅτι καθὼς ἐκεῖνός ἐστι, καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐσμεν ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ τούτῳ. • Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. d he is pure, 1 John iii. 3. See also on Matt. v. ver. 48. clause 1. *Gr. love with us. a See on Rom. v. ver. 5. clause 2. VER. 20. καὶ τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὑτοῦ μισῇ, ψεύστης ἐσ Εάν τις εἴπης Ὅτι ἀγαπῶ τὸν Θεόν, τίν· ὁ γὰρ μὴ ἀγαπῶν τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ ὅ ἑώρακε, τὸν Θεὸν, ὃν οὐχ ἑώρακε, πῶς δύνα ται ἀγαπᾶν. If a man say, I love God, and hatsth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? VER. 21. Καὶ ταύτην τὴν ἐντολὴν ἔχομεν ἀπ' αὐτ τοῦ· ἵνα ὁ ἀγαπῶν τὸν Θεὸν, ἀγαπᾷ καὶ τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ. a And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. a See on Mark ix. ver. 50. clause 3. CHAP. V.-VER. 1. Πᾶς ὁ πιστεύων ὅτι Ἰησοῦς ἐστιν ὁ Χριστ τὸς, ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ γεγέννηται· καὶ σᾶς ὁ ἀγα πῶν τὸν γεννήσαντα, ἀγαπᾷ καὶ τὸν γεγεν νημένον ἐξ αὐτοῦ. a Whosoever believeth that Jesus bis the Christ, is born of God: & and every one that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him. See on Mark xvi. ver. 16. clause 1. b See on Luke ii. ver. 11. clause 2. See on John i. ver. 13. clause 5. He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there Οτι πᾶν τὸ γεγεννημένον ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ, νικᾷ τὸν κόσμον· καὶ αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ νίκη ἡ οικήσασα τὸν κόσμον, ἡ πίστις ἡμῶν. For whatsoever is born of God, After A. D. 90. b overcometh the world: and this is the you, a See on John i. ver. 13. clause 5. b These things I have spoken unto that in me ye might have peace. in the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world, John xvi. 33. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.) Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us, Rom. viii. 35-37. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ, 1 Cor. xv. 57. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death, Rev. xii. 11. VER. 5. Τίς ἐστιν ὁ νικῶν τὸν κόσμον, εἰ μὴ ὁ πιστεύων ὅτι Ἰησοῦς ἐστιν ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ; Who is he that overcometh the world, a but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? a See on Matt. xiv. ver. 33. clause S. VER. 6. Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ ἐλθὼν δι ̓ ὕδατος καὶ αἵματος, Ἰησοῦς ὁ Χριστός· οὐκ ἐν τῷ ὕδατι μόνον, ἀλλ ̓ ἐν τῷ ὕδατι καὶ τῷ αἵματι· καὶ τὸ Πνεῦμά ἐστι τὸ μαρτυροῦν· ὅτι τὸ Πνεῦμά ἐστιν ἡ ἀλήθεια. This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. b. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. a But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came thereout blood and water. And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe, John xix. 34, 35. b See on John xv. ver. 26. clause 3. • See on John xiv. ver. 17. clause 1. |