etaphor of Rev. iii. 20, (1) hearing the Saviour’s voice, (2) opening the door, (3) communion.
Ver. 11. The Testimony of the Incar- nation. Cf.i.2. ἔδωκεν, “gave,” aorist referring to a definite historic act, the Incarnation.
Ver. 12. µή with the participle does not necessarily make the case hypothetical (cf. note on ii. 4). St. John would have
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X ii. 12 reff., ili. 23.
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εἰς τὸ Σ ὄνομα 7 τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ.
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µεθα, οἴδαμεν ὅτι ἔχομεν τὰ 4 ήμοα & ἠτήκαμεν el αὐτοῦ. 16. “Edy τις iy τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ * ἁμαρτάνοντα ἁμαρτίαν μὴ πρὸςε Gia d Luke xxiii. 24; Phil. iv. 6.
ili. 8 (ἐὰν στήκετε). i. 18; 2 Tim. iv. 7; Col. ii. το; 1 Peter iii. 14.
a a 15. καὶ «ἐὰν οἴδαμεν ὅτι ἀκούει ἡμῶν, ὃ ἂν ὃ
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a iii. 21 John xiv. 13, XVi.
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b Matt. vi. 10; Luke XXii. 42.
hess. e ii. 25; Mark iv. 41 ; John vii. ae 1 Tim.
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only too many actual instances before him in those days of doctrinal unsettle- ment.
Vv. 13-21. The Epistle is finished, and the Apostle now speaks his closing words. ‘‘ These things I wrote to you that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even to you that believe in the name of the Son of God. And this is the bold- ness which we have toward Him, that it we request anything according to His will, He hearkeneth to us. And if we know that He hearkeneth to us whatever we request, we know that we have the requests which we have made from Him. If any one see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall make request, and he will give to him life, even to them that are sinning not unto death. There {5 a sin unto death; not concerning that do I say that he should ask. Every sort of unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not unto death. We know that every one that hath been begotten of God doth not keep sinning, but the Begotten of God observeth him, and the Evil One doth not lay holdon him. We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the Evil One. And we know that the Son of God hath come, and hath given us understanding that we may get to know the True One; and we are in the True One, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the True God and Life Eternal. Little children, guard yourselves from the idols.”
Ver. 13. The purpose for which St. John wrote his Gospel was that we might believe in the Incarnation, and so have Eternal Life (xx. 31); the purpose of the Epistle is not merely that we may have Eternal Life by believing but that we may know that we have it. The Gospel exhibits the Son of God, the