Ver. 21. ἔγραψα, ‘‘I wrote,” may refer to the Gospel, which is an exposition of the Incarnation, mu] τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ᾽Ρησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἔνσαρκος οἰκονομία (c/. note on νετ. 14); but more probably ‘“‘aor. referring to the moment just past” (Jebb on Soph. O.T. 337). The aor. is appro-
19—27.
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priate. No sooner has he spoken of the antichrists than he hastens to reiterate his assurance of confidence in his readers. τὴν ἀλήθειαν, see note on i. 8. ἐκ, of parentage (cf. iii. 8-10). His readers had only to be reminded of their experience (οἴδατε), and it would keep them from being led astray. An experience is an anchor to the soul in time of storm. “Tell me,” said the dying Cromwell to a minister, ‘‘is it possible to fall from grace?” .‘*No, it is not possible.” “Then I am safe, for I know that I was once in grace” (Morley’s Oliver Crom- well, V. χ.).
Ver. 22. Wevorns, cf. n. oni.6. The
the Father; through Him we reach the. Unseen Father (cf. John xiv. 9).
Ver. 25. ἐπαγγελία, repromissio, ‘ pro-- mise”; only here in the Johannine writ-- ings (see note oni. 5). αὐτός, 1.8., the: Father. God is the Promiser, and His. promises are made in Christ (cf. 2 Cor. i. 20).
Ver. 26. ἔγραψα, see note on ver. 21. τῶν πλανώγτων, the heretical teachers. Pres. partic., ‘‘are leading astray” but unsuccessfully.
Ver. 27. The ground of the Apostle’s confidence in his readers. They need not be taught but only reminded. αλλ᾽ ὧς, κ.τ.λ., a single sentence with one
Cerinthian distinction between Jesus and _apodosis, Vulg. makes it a double sen- the Christ was a denial of the possibility tence with two apodoses: ‘“‘as His chrism
of the Incarnation, 1.Ε., of the filial rela- tion of man to God. ov« in dependent clause after ἀρνεῖσθαι is a common Gk. idiom, not unknown in English; cf. Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, tv. ii. 7: ‘He denied you had-in him no right”.
Ver. 23. Since the Father is manifested and interpreted in the Son. Cf. Johni. τὴ, xiv. 0.