"soul unto his captain Christ, Under whose colours he hath fought so long:"
--that we may know something of the great text in the Epistle to the Romans, with its matchless translation--"we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us"[298]--that arrogance of victory which is at once so splendid and so saintly.
[276] This is expressed, after St. John's fashion, by the neuter, παν το γεγεννημενον εκ του Θεου. ver. 4.
[277] ἡ πιστις ἡμων, ver. 4.
[278] ὁ νικων τον κοσμον, ὁ πιστευων, ver. 5.
[279] 1 John ii. 29.
[280] 1 John iv. 7.
[281] John iii. 5.
[282] σφοδρα αινιγματωδης και σκοτεινως ειρημενος. Euseb.
[283]
יֻלָּר־שָׁמ וֶה. Ver. 4. יֻלַּר־בָּהּ וְאִישׁ אִישׁ. Ver. 5. יֻלָּר־שָׁמ וֶה. Ver. 6. Psalm lxxxvii.
[284]
"Both they who sing and they who dance, With sacred song are there; In thee fresh brooks and soft streams glance, And all my fountains clear." MILTON, Paraphrase Ps. lxxxvii. 7.
This, on the whole, seems to be considered the most tenable interpretation.
[285] Συ ει ὁ διδασκαλος του Ισραηλ; John iii. 10.
[286] John i. 26, ii. 6, 9, iii. 5-22, iv. 6-16, v. 3, vii. 37, 39, ix. 7, xiii. 1-5, xix. 34.
[287] Hooker, _E. P._, V. lix. (4).
[288] So the perfect is used throughout. γεγεννηται. ii. 29, iii. 9, iv. 7. παν το γεγεννημενον. v. 4. Very remarkably below, πας ὁ γεγεννημενος--αλλα ὁ γεννηθεις εκ του Θεου; the first of the regenerate man who continues in that condition of grace, the second of the Begotten Son of God who keeps His servant. 1 John v. 18.
[289] _Training of children; or How to Make the Children into Saints and Soldiers of Jesus Christ._ By the General of the Salvation Army. London: Salvation Army Book Stores, pp. 162, 163.
[290] Not quite, cf. Rom. viii. 37, xii, 21; 1 Cor. xv. 55, 57. The substantive νικη occurs only 1 John v. 4. A slightly different form (νικος) is in Matt. xii. 20; 1 Cor. xv. 54, 55, 57.
[291] John xvi. 33.
[292] John ii. 13, 14.
[293] 1 John iv. 4.
[294] It does not seem possible to convey to the English reader the fourfold harping upon the word (1 John v. 4, 5) by any other rendering. "The _victory_ that hath _overcome_ the world" (R.V.) fails in this. The noble translation of ὑπερνικωμεν (Rom. viii. 37), happily retained by the Revisers, is rendered consistent by the translation here proposed.
[295] Apoc. ii. 13, xiv. 12.
[296] Fides _quæ creditur_, not _quâ creditur_.
[297]
"Thou who art victory!" WORDSWORTH, _Ode to Duty_.
[298] ὑπερνικωμεν. Rom. viii. 37.