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is teaching you regarding all things, it is indeed true and is not a lie; and even as it taught you, abide in Him”. Reading ἀλλά, translate: ‘ye have no need that any one should teach you, but His chrism’ is teaching you... a lie; and evenas, etc.” διδάσκει, of the continued teach- ing by the grace of the Spirit; ἐδίδαξεν, of the illumination at the hour of con- version. µένετε, plainly imperat. in next ver., can hardly be indicat. here (‘‘ ye are abiding”). The reading pevetre (‘‘ye shall abide”) would express the Apostle’s confidence in the steadfastness of his
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38; Rev. iii. 18. a John xv. 18.
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y Matt. xxiv. 3, 27, 39; 1 Cor xv. 23; 1 Thess. ii. 19; iii. 13. a Matt. viil.27; Mark xiii. 1; Luke i. 29, vii. 39; 2 Peter iii. 11.
Ὦ Matt. v. 9, xxiii. 7, 8, 9, xxvii. 8; Luke 1. 32, 35; Johni. 43.
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readers, like ‘‘ England expects every man to do his duty”. Cf. Matt. v. 48: ἔσεσθε οὖν ὑμεῖς τέλειοι. ἐν αὐτῷ, in co (Vulg), “in Him,” ¢.e., in Christ and therefore in God (cf. ver. 24). According to Aug., ‘‘in it,” z.e., the chrism, unctio (permanete in tpsa).
Ver. 28. καὶ νῦν, continuing and rein- forcing the exhortation. ἐὰν φανερωθῇῃ : the uncertainty is not in the manifesta- tion but in the time of it, and this is the reason for steadfast abiding in Him. Cf. unwritten saying of Jesus: éd’ ots γὰρ ἂν εὕρω ὑμᾶς, φησὶν, ἐπὶ τούτοις καὶ κρινῶ. σχῶμεν, aor. marking the sud- denness of the crisis. παρρησία, pro- verly ‘‘ freedom of speech” (cf. Mark viii. 2; John vii. 13, xvi. 29, xviii. 20; Acts il. 29, iv. 29, 31, xxvili. 31); then ‘“con- fidence,” ‘‘ boldness,” especially before God (cf. Heb. iv. 16; 1 John iii. 27, iv. I7, v. 14), the attitude of children to their father in contrast with that of slaves to their master (cf. Sen. Ef. xlvii.: ‘‘Infelicibus servis movere labra ne in
hoc quidem ut loquantur licet. Virga murmur Omne compescitur: ... nocte tota jejuni mutique perstant”). καὶ μὴ
αἰσχυνθώμεν, in contrast to σχώμεν παρρησίαν. mapovoia, frequent in N.T. but only here in the Johannine writings. Not simply “presence” but ‘‘ arrival,” “Cadvent” (adventus); cf. Luke xiii. 1: παρῆσαν, Matt. xi. 50, John xi. 28.
Ver. 29. In view of the preceding verse δίκαιος must refer to Christ (cf. ii. I), and it is equally certain that ἐξ αὐτοῦ refers to the Father, since ‘‘ begotten of Christ” (cf. Tennyson 5 ‘“‘our fair father Christ”) is not a Scriptural idea. The