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The Pulpit Commentary — 1 John
Alfred Plummer [1841-1926] · 166,203 words · 177 reading sections
The Pulpit Commentary — 1 John — Section 1
THE PULPIT COMMENTARY, EDITED BY THE VERY REV. H. D. M. SPENCE, D.D., IJEAN OF GLOllOESTEB; AND BY THE REV. JOSEPH S. EXELL, M.A.. 1·. JOHN. <$xposition BY REV. A. PLUMMER, M ..A.., D.D., ldASTGR OF llNlVJlRSl'IY COLLIWE, Dlll!.H.All. ~omiletics BY REV. C. CLEMANCE, B.A., D.D. ~omilies bu llarious autbors.…
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Epistle as St. John's. Olemcnt of Alexandria speaks of it as St. John's, and apparently commented on both it and the Third Epistle (Eusebius, • Hist. Ecot,' VI. xiv. 1). Dionysius of Alexandria thinks that his not naming himself in these Epistles is in accordance with St. John's common practice. A passage in St. Cypria…
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commonly regarded ae bad, which the true Gnostic would not ehun, but seek, as a means of enlarging hie experience. It will be seen at once how such teaching cut at the root of all Christian truth and morality. (1) Righteousness was made of no account in com- parison with intellectual illumination. (2) Scripture was…
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they have been led astray, or are in danger of being led astray, by false teaohers to whom the lady, with mistaken generosity, has given a welcome. Some commentators infer that the lady herself has been seduced into extreme asceticism through the Gnostic doctrine of the vileness of the flesh; that it was a case in whic…
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AN ANALYSIS OF THE THIRD EPISTLJL 1. Vers. 1-4. INTRODUCTION. .Address and occasion. 2. Vera. 5-12. MAIN DIVISION, Exhortation. Vera. 5-8, The hospitality of Gaius. V ers. 9, 10. The arrogance of Diotrephes. Vera. 11, 12. 'rbe moral. 3. Vers, 13, 14. CoNOLUSION, VI. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF TIIE EPISTLF.9. The st…
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h<'a.rd and obeyed. "Thou lrnowest that our witness is true," is the conviction' which oomes home to the mind of every patient and earnest student of these writings. "That our witness is true." He has the whole "glorious company of the apostles " at his back. He has " the holy Church throughout all the world" on his si…
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the whole Gosprl lends up, "My Lord 1tnd his chnrnc(cr of the Lifo, became visible, nnd mY God I" Had St.. John merely eitid in him n1·0 ccntrctl all the rclntions be- "i,C'nrd," we might hnve thought that ho tween God and man." Quito in St. John's meRnt a doctrine. Hnd he merely sai<l. style, vcr. 2 takes up and deve…
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muet supply l<1T1, not if. (For 1tal ..• 6~, cf. Ver. 5-ch. ii. 28.-2. FrnsT MAI). DIVI• John v1. 51, whoro, oe hero, 1<al ie the lead- BION, God is Light. ing conjunctiou; in ,John viii. 16, 17 and V <;?. 5-ch. ii. 6.--(1) Positive side. What xv. 27, 61 lends.) "Blessed ai·e they that Bee 1101 and yet believe. It…
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light; for the Ao,-o, is the Rc,·elntiou oft.he (John viii. I?.; xi. 9, 10; xii. 35; xxi. 18: l'Hlher's nature. Thnt God is, in his very Uov. xxi. 24); this activity will inevitably nat.ure, lig-ht, is l\n nnnounoement peculfar express tJ10 ,cowowla in which we live. To to St. John. Others tell us that he is the have…
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wn.lking in the light involves: (I) con- be surrendered. No doubt 1va, like other sciouencee of sin and confession of sin (vere. particles, becomes weakened in later Greek; 8-10); (2)n.ccepting the propitiation of Jesus but even in later claBBical Greek the notion Obrist the Righteous (eh. ii. 1-2); (3) obe- of purpose…
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written, it can scarcely be questioned, by the author of the Fourth Gospel; written upon a specific theme, on a distinct method, with an avowed aim. Two preliminary stntements hereupon require distinct and emphatic notice here. 1. Thero is a declara- tion that the writer was one who lrnd been brouo-ht into close con…
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V. Tim LIFE AUTHORITATIVELY DECLARED WITII A Dl':FINITE AIM. The aim is twofol,l: 1. 'l'hat of a kindred fellowship of souls who are in communion with the L,;fe ! No olher fellowship to compare with this. Jt is (1) pure, (2) undying. 2. That out of the closeness of fellowship there might come a folne8s of joy. Life is …
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about his intell..gent creRtures knowing who and what he is. 2. It shows ue also that, 1f we are adequ:itely to know who or what God is, it must be by a meseage from him to man, and not through man attempting to srarch out him. 3. We see, further, t.lmt by means of such a mt>ssage, brought ~y such a Messenger, we ma…
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n.nd yet we may, like Criin, "go out from the presence of the Lorrl: rinrl be cut of fellowship with him; we may, yea, we shall, remain unillumined by his brightness, I\Dd unsaved by his revelation of himself, unles, we first learn to own our gnilt, to take our right pince as sinful men before a. holy God. 'l'o this…
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Di\'inc Son admit Christian believers into vital and intimate communion with them- seh·cs. This fellowship is a thing of charn.cter and of life. They who share in it arc "bc_gotte~ of ?od;" th~y- have "become yartakers of the Divine nature; " and they realize mth JOY the D1vme presenec-. 'lhe apostle sought to kad his…
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Hmnion with him. (2) A true knowledge of God is essential to ri"ht 0 relation to him. lf 1:1e regard him ns a stern Lawgiver, offended, resentful, implaca blc, we C[Lanot even approach unto him. And the guilty conscience is prone to entertain such viewa o( him. (3) The true knowledge of God is attainable through Jesus…
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t.ext ligl,t is said to be the essence or the Divine Dcing. "Goel is Light." Of 1111 ruaterinl things light is most fitted to set forth truLh and holy spiritual being. "It unites in it~elf," _as Alfor~, ~ays, "pu_rity, and_ clearness, and beauty,_ and glory, as no other material ob3ect does. And Milton, "Light ether…
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nnothcr w11.y. It is thus stated by Professor Lias: "When we reflect on the threefold naturo of light, its enlightening, its warming, its chemical powers, we are remi:!<led of the Holy Trinity-the unapproachablo Light himself; hi~ eternal Revealer, bringing light to earth, and quickening by his genial warmth the frozen…
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II. THE co!s'SEQUENOES OF FELLow·snrr WITR GoD. 1. Fellowship with the saints. "We hn,·c fellowship one with another." The reality of our communion with God is attcste.l _by our communion of love with those who nrc his. Walking in the sphere of truth, nghteousnrs,, nnd love, we have fellowship with nil those who wal…
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of tho denier: "He decci veth himself." By closing hi., eyes to the light of trn lh and holiness, ho 1s wandering into moral error, falsehood, and danger. He sins against his own soul. (2) The manifestation of the solemn fact that the truth of Q()d is not in him. So.ying that he ha, no sin, ho testifie3 that neither th…
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Vcrs. 1-4.-Introduction. I. SUDJECT OF APOSTOLIC PROCLAMATION. 1. What is thrown into prominence. (1) The absolute co11cerni11g the Word of life. "That which wa~ from th 7 beginning,'.' By this form of expression we are taken back to a point wluch has existence only m thought, and from that point we are called to lo…
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'rhoy roBlized the importance of making public the manifestation of the Life to them, but, at the same time, what he was before being manifested to them. Ila was eternal; while entering into time, in the life which essentially belonged to him, he was timeless, He was also with the Father-a Companion, M it were, in w…
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symbol of his trut.h and pmity. Christ may havo given the revelation in thrse words, tho_ugh they are not _to be found in t.he Gospels. It is implied in his being tho Ligh\ while at the same time the Word (John i. 1-9). It Wt\S because he manifested the e~sentia.l light-natnrc of God that ho was Light-bringer to men. W…
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the activity oC self-cleception, there is not the activity of the truth. If it wcro acli·rc in us, it would show us that there was much remaining evil to be overcome. 4. Sec~nd opposed po~ilion. (1) Slated, "IC we confess our sins." The preci~e converse would hl\ve been saying that we have sin. There is a going beyo…
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Yer. J.-My little ohildren; or, porhape, himself "rightcou~." A sinner could not "'Y dear child1·et1; or, eimply, my ohiult-en. reconcilo God to sinners; but a. righteous The diminutive (u1tvlu), if it retains any Advooo.te can, for his chn,raoter is a. warrant force. expresses endearment rather than for the righteo…
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llo mere intellectue.l 11ppreheneion, such as The change from Iv a.~Trp to lKe,voo con- the Onoatice postule.ted, but II moral o.nd firms the view that a~...6v and avTou mean spiritual affection e.nd activity. It is poe- the Father; but St. John's use of bCE1vos to siblo to know nnd ho.ta (John xvi. 24). reeall _wit…
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before the Gospel; (2) from the beginning more, it shows thnt, iu spite of his l111ving of your career as Christians. 'l'his new and nominnlly entered iho compnuy of tho yet old k>mmand rnms up tl:Je practice.I side childron of light, he ho.s reo.lly ncvcl' left of tlw ,.flspcl wl,ich h~<l bl'en preached to the dark…
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norisl)? Five nuswers e.re given. (a) Tho 1 write this Epistle: Rcasrma for wriliHg it: chcmgo is mncle for emphasis: "I write; I 1. To all of you. You have been for- wroto; thero is nothing more to be Mid." Dut in this cnso the pint tense should como given. 2. To the old o.mong You have knowledge first: "I wrote;…
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gi.-cu to yer. 14. It is difficult tn determine These rival centres chtsh with one nnothcr, whnt is meaut by the chnuge from 1"E1<eia and also with the one trno Centre. All this to ora,Bia. T,1<0/a o~curs once with µ.ou St. John forbids. With .-ci lv T,p 1e&aµq,, of. (,-er. 1), nnd six times without µ.ov in the ,-{ …
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worlcl nncl the lovo of the }'nther ore obso- Rpply to all those n,cldresserl in the Epistle; lutcly incompntible, which must we choose? and this helps to fix the meaning in ver. !B. Not the former, for its object is a.lrea<ly It is the last hour. What does this mean ·1 pnssing nwny; while not only cloes the There is s…
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thN1gh in It less degrc-e, because the gi~ of anticlnist. Either the exiAtcncc of the PC'11tccost h1td giYen them powers of insight autichristian cl111rncter, or tho npproBCh of which 01eir pred('ccssors had not possessed. the antiohrist, is given as cvidenco thnt The prcEent text Ecems to be an illustration the d:i…
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"'fhnt it mny be mnde manifost that not all truth" tha.t he addresses them, espccia.lly who are with U8 (µe9' 7Jµwv) ore nf m U! to warn them against antichriHts. \Vo are .;,,.,~v)." 'fhis ~eems proforable. The rene- in doubt whether ,cizl g,., depends upon gaJo and npostnto was all along only nomi- l-ypa,f,cz (" and b…
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There is not a single connecting po.rticle in Obrist" (vcr. 20). The indicntivo (µlrn) vers. 22-24; the sentences fall on the ee,r states what ought to be true of them, and lik<' miuute-guns. "Eve,'Y one thaL denieth." is a dclicntc equivalent to µ•vfrw (ver. 24). There is no C'Xc>cption. Even an apostle, if The ano…
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HOMILETICS. Vcrs. 1, 2.-Gorl's remedy for sin. Connecting link: The being without sin, although that to which we cannot as yet pretenrl without frustrating the purpose of God's revela- tion of himself, is nevcrUielcss a point to be aimed at in our advance in and towards the light, and is the purpose of the apostle in…
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those who entrust their cause to him (Heb. vii. 25). As \Vestcott beautifully remarks, "He is not nn Advocate who wishes to set aside the Law, but to carry it out and. nprly it." II. How DOES ALL THIS BEAR ON TRE DOING AWAY OF SIN IN us? The action or tbo Sa.-iour's work is twofo!d. 1. Objectively. For us-God ward. It…
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will thereby increase (cf. John vii. 17). As a summary, moreover, of the command- ments of our Lord Jesus, we may take th_e sermon on the mount, in which the only life thi\t will be of worth in his kingdom 1s set forth, and that too on his own Divine. authority. II. THE COMMANDMENTS OF TIIE Lonn JESUS ARE BUMMED UP BY…
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Lordship of Christ. 3. That he relies upon the atonement made by Chri~t. 4. Thl\t he rooeh·es power from Christ every day and all tho day long. 6. That he lms no othor conception of a worthy object in life than that life should be wholly for Christ.. 6, That for life or death, for time or eternity, he commits his all t…
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. V~rs. 7-11.-Love an_d lig~t. Oonnec_t~ng l~nlc: Th~ word "ought" (ver. 6) 1mphes a command oxphc1tly given or 1mphc1tly rnvolv:ed m other teaching; such is the case here. 'l'he Son of God has come. And from him as the Light the command has proceeded. What specific form the commandment has taken from his lips is the m…
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~-he radian~e of the central ~un.. 2,-, Comrqucntly, he sees wher~ he is going. "'l'hcro is no occasion of stumbling m b1m. (cf. John xi. 9, 10). 3. 'l'lns is an unvaryiug law, all profess10n to the c?ntrary notwitbstai~di~g (vcr. 9). Let a man talk_ as largely and as loudly as ~e may, 1f ,1c loves not, he 1s m the …
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men. Ancl how abundant is the scope afforded in the teachings of the 1Vord for th'l nbandonmont of all their energies to the noblest objects ! 3. He writes to the" fathers," bccnuso they have" known him that is from the be;..'inning;" i.e. in the ripeness of their attainment they have learnt tho glory of Christ as t…
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of rrople thereon (John iii. lG). Sometimes the outer form of things (1 Cor. vii. 31). At ot!icr tim~s, 11s hore, _it refers to the world of busy human concerns, of thinking, planmng_, racing, hungering, tlmstmg, striving, and all for its own aims and purposes, mespectl\'ely ol the glory of God or even of questions …
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if they have been lustfully indulged, retain ~heir craving, but loRe the p()wer of enjc,y- ment. llut e. more pleasing reason yet remains to be specified. 5. There j9 a far IJ,-ttcr pursuit open to us, which will open up nobler prospects. "He that doetb. the will of God o.bideth for ever." Here the opposite course is …
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"thnt clay" (Mntt.. xxiv, 3G; vii. 22; 2 'l'im. i. 12, 18); "the ln.~t time" (1 Pet. i. 6); "the end" (Matt. xxiv. 14; xiii. 39; xxviii. 20; 1 Cor. xv. 24); "the fulness c>f times" (Gal. iv. 4; Eph. i. 10); "the a"e to come" (lie b. ii. 5; Eph, i. 21) • "the n~cs" (Hcb. i. 2; xi. 3); "ages of ages" "(Rev. xiv. 11); …
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expressione, "1mtichrist," "many antichrists." Topic--Antichri3t; a manifold series of neg,ieions. l. SINCE THE DEOINNINQ OF THE CHRISTIAN AG~;, THE SUPREME TEST OF TRUTH AND FALSEIIOOD IN IIELIOION 1B THEIR RELATION TO nm Lorrn JESUS CHRIST. Cf. Matt. xii. 30, where our Lord showe that there is no neutrality in refer…
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an appalling height. We would not intimate that the Church of Rollie is one form of 11ntichrist; but so far I\S this one point is concerned, or auy point of her teaching which obscures the ~Jory of the Redeemer, she is so far antichristian. 3. Papal iefallibility. "'hen the pope applies to himself the words," No man…
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hnve hinted nt already, that some-many-of those who now ranked with the anti- christian party had once Rought aclmission to and found a home witr.iu the viHihle Church of tho Lord Jesus ChriHt. What was the pressure put upon them from without we cnnnot tell; h11t outside pressure nlone, however great, would not account…
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as tuose we have before 11s, this _weeding process will often have to precede all others, The ground must be cleared of its cumbcrcrs, that the plants of grace may thrive the better. 7. If Churches are on the whole loyal and sound, false men will "go out" from them. "They went out," etc. This is an effective yet potent…
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or his bestowrnents of wisdom upon the natural man, may be lost· but this hi"hcr chrism in true believers, never I G. What are it.9 effects 1 (1) Direct'. (a) Enlighten- ment, "Ye all know" (cf. John xvi. 13; 1 Cr)r. ii. 0-16). Those fille<l with the Spirit see Lhe truth as others cnnnot. (b) Consequently, they can app…
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is the greatest 'l'l·hich could bo_ ut~ere<.t '.' Who is. the liar,'~ etc. (d ,i,d,<T-r,1r)? Henci• tile topic presented to the liom1let1c expositor. 'l'op1c-1'he lie of antichrist the grea.tesC fa7s~haod possible. J i'IRAT IS THAT WRICH ANTICHRIST DENIF.S? The several references to antichrist ind,cate that the main,…
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IV. 'l'm: CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WIIICII THE DENIAL IS MADE. I. In .<pite of the clectrest testimony to the facts and doctrines denied-testimony/ given by blameless mon, in the teeth of their own natural and strongest prepossessions to the contrary. (Let this last clause be duly weighed.) 2. In spite of the tenderest s…
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,. 8; 1 ,Tobu iv. 10). 3. 'l'hrongh the medi:ttion of Christ they lrnve access to the Father (Eph. ii. 18; Rom. v. 2). 4. Through the intercession of Christ they have t·,,~s~.ant comrnu_nion _with the Father; not merely o~casional access as ton Kin~, bt\t n tilrnl fellowship ·with n Fa1hor. 5. '.l.'hrough Christ as th…
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ing of the soul; Rev. i. 7 as illustrnting the reverse. Compare also 2 Tbcss. i. !) for e. eirnih1r use of d1ro). ,vhat if the t:iaviour's wonl "clepart" shouln. be a terrifbl. shrinking from the 1,resence of the Lorcl (cf. Gen. iv. 16; iii. 8)? Who would not labour e.nd strive nnd prny, that at his Saviour's appearing…
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lo'l'e secnres it! 'l'here are three factors in the making of this life. 1. God, 1md the riches of his lo,·c ~s the sustaining energy of the soul. 2. A nature ripened in holiness, 1wd diwst.cd of 1111 decaying tendencies in its bodily enswathement, as the developed lire of the mu!. 3. A world of undecaying fitness and …
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fruits malcee us sure of the harvest. Objectively (Rom. v. 10). Suhjcctivcly (Phil. i. 6). 5. This clear and definite goal to human existence gives to theories of wl vance, development, evolution, an intelligible meaning, a crowning glory. G. The rtasrm of life is thus magnificently told us. It is that we may become l…
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certainty to draw? Sec him; his course is no uncertain, fickle ono • he iB in love with rightconsness, and with nothing bnt righteousness; towards 'God his most devout, rc,ercnt. love goes forth; towanls man ho is uniformly trnc and kind. As for l1imseli', the ~oul regubtcs the body, the spirit hoverus the soul, and…
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authority of the apostle. Jlis fatherly n·lation to them, his trn,kr affection for them, and his venernblo age comLine to invest his words with authority. Our text teaches- I. 'fIIAT TIIE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST DISCOURAGES SIN, "These thirws write I unto you, that yo sin not." The '' these things" are the statements m…
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'L'he New Tcs!nment does not give us nuy explnuation of the propitiation; it presents ,,s with no theory or scheme concerning it; it simply states it as a great fact in the Divine way of salvation. And it would hnve heen well if the example of the sacred ,uiters in this respect hnd been more generally followed. Here…
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etornnl, that they should kr.ow thee the only trne God," etc. Again, this knowlerlge is intimately nnd vitally related to Jove. "Every one that loveth is begotten nf God, 11nd knoweth God. lie that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God i~ love." It is by love that we know him. Without love we cannot know him; the mor…
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Ver. 6.-Christian vroft-Ssion and consequent obli!]ation. "He tlmt saith he abi<loth in him ought himself," etc. I. A rnoFESSION OF CHRISTIAN CHARACTER. "He that aaith he abideth in him," i.e. in God. In the paragraph of which our te.xt ia a part there is a gradation of ideas as to the relat.ion of the Christian to …
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ye ba.ve love one to another" (,John xiii. 34, 35;. "In thi3 one thing," says Stier, "nnd in no other, is discipleship approved. It is not knowledge which avails, not a so- called faith, even though, like that of Judas, before the devil entered him, it could caRt out devils a.nd remove mountains; rather is this know…
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