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s Ver. 10.
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Ver. 12. ‘‘God—no one hath ever yet beheld Him”. By and by ‘‘ we shall see ‘Him even as He is”’ (iii. 2), but even now, if we love, we are no strangers to Him: He abides and works in us. τετελειωμένη, ‘¢ carried to its end” ; see note on il. 5.
Ver. 13. Cf. iii. 24. The argument is that God would not have granted us this priceless gift if he were ‘hot in in- timate relation with us and had not a steadfast purpose of grace toward us.
Ver. 14. The apostolic testimony (cf. i. 1-3). pets, either the editorial “we”
or “I aed the rest of the Apostles who were eye-witnesses”. ἀπέσταλκεν, see note on ver. 9.
Ver. 15. ὁμολογήσῃ, aor. of a definite confession born of persuasion. Such a conviction implies fellowship with God.
Ver. 16. ‘pets, here “ you and I,” we believers. Observe the three stages: (1 ) “get to know” (γινώσκειγ), (2) ‘ believe” (πιστεύειν), (3) ‘‘confess” (ὁμολογεῖν). -év ἡμῖν, see note on ver. 9.
Another incentive to love: it casts out fear. τῇ ἀγάπῃ. ‘the love just men- tioned”. Cf. τὸν φόβον, 6 φόβος (ver. 18).
Ver. 17. τετελείωται, cf. ver. 12. μεθ᾽
ἡμῶν: love is a heavenly visitant so- journing with us and claiming observ- ance. Love has been “carried to its end” when we are like Jesus, His visible representatives. ὅτι resumes ἐν τούτῳ, ἵνα . . « κρίσεως being parenthetical: ‘herein. . . because” (ili. 16, iv. g, 10).
παρρησίαν, see note on ii. 28. ἐκεῖνος, see note on ii. 6. ἐστιν, “is,” not ἦν, “was”. Jesus is in the world unseen, and our office is to make Him visible. We are to Him what He was to the Father in the days of His flesh—* Dei inaspecti aspectabilis imago”
Ver. 18. Bern.: ‘Amor reverentiam nescit”. Φόβος, the opposite of παρρη- gia. κόλασιν ἔχει, ‘implies punish-
ment,” the portion of slaves. The portion of slaves is punishment (κόλασις) and their spirit fear; the portion of sons 1s chastisement (παιδεία) and their spirit boldness (παρρησία). Cf. Heb. xii. 7, Clem. Alex.: ‘‘ Perfectio fidelis hominis caritas est”. Aug.: ‘‘ Major charitas, minor timor; minorcharitas, majortimor”. Bengel has here one of his untranslatable comments: ‘‘ Varius hominum status: sine timore et amore; cum timore sine amore; cum timore et amore; sine timore cum amore”