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11 Johni. δ.
πι 1 John iy. ΕΕΒΕ.
n 1 John iv. , 2.
o x John ii. 18 reff.
ο 5 , αντι ιστος. p μες πι, κοστος
9. q Matt. x. 5
41, 42, XX. και
8; James | = διδαχή sx ate
Vv. 4. εν toa TOU ἵστου r Matt. ii. ο, τη Χη P ?
xiv. 22; Markx. 32; 1 Tim. v. 24 (προάγωγ). 22, 23.
peda, ἀλλὰ ἃ μισθὸν πλήρη ἀπολάβωμεν.ὃ
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> λή.1 θὰ > , aE ES a ° > en ~ evToAy,' καθὼς ἠκούσατε Gr ἀρχῆς, ἵνα ἐν αὐτῇ περιπατῆτε᾿ 7. ὅτι πολλοὶ | πλάνοι”' εἰσῆλθον ” εἰς τὸν κόσμον, οἱ μὴ " ὁμολογοῦντες [ An x > , > LAA μμ, > re , \ ησοῦν Χριστὸν ἐρχόμενον ἐν σαρκί' οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ ' πλάνος Kal 6 8. ? βλέπετε ἑαυτούς, ἵνα μὴ ἀπολέσωμεν ἃ εἰργασά-
ϱ. Tas ὁ " παραβαίνων,"
μὴ ᾽μένων ἐν τῇ διδαχῇ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, Θεὸν οὐκ ἔχει ΄ ὁ µένων
2 RR ος / να εκ we ουτος και τον πατερα και τον υιον εχει.
si Tim. ii. 15; 2 Tim. iii. 14. tx John ii.
εστιν η εντολη WLP; η εντολη εστιν ΒΚ, edd. 3εισηλθον KLP; εξηλθον SAB, Syrbo, Vg., Sah., Arm., Iren. (III. xvii. 8), edd.
(-αν A, Tisch., WH).
Samokeowpev απολαβωµεν KLP; απολεσητε απολαβητε 3’ (απολησθε) AB,
Syrvge ph, Vg., Cop., Sah., Aeth., Arm., Iren., edd. ;
ειργασαµεθα BKLP, Syrph
(marg.), Sah.; npy-B*, WH, Nest.; ειργασασθε SQA, Syrbo ph, Vg., Cop., Aeth.,
Arm., Iren., Tisch.
ἁπαραβαινων KLP, Syrbo ph, Vg. (qui recedit), Cop., Arm. ; προαγων SAB, Sah.,
Aeth., edd.
ὅτον.χριστου KLP, Cop., Aeth.; om. ΔΑΒ, Syrph, Vg., Sah., Arm., edd.
perinde est acsi totum Pentateuchum servasset ”.
Vv. 7-3. A Warning against Heretical Teaching. ‘‘ Because many deceivers went forth into the world—even they that confess not Jesus as Christ coming in flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist. Look to yourselves, that ye may not lose what we wrought, but re- ceive a full wage.”
Ver. 7. ὅτι explaining ἐρωτῶ σε: ‘1 ask you to obey the old commandment because seducers are at work”. ἐξῆλθον εἰς τὸν κόσμον, See note on 1 John iv. 1. ot py ὁμολογοῦντες, a definite and well- known sect. See note on I Johnii. 4. ἐληλυθότα (1 John iv. 2) of the Advent, ἐρχόμενον of the continous manifestation of the incarnate Christ. Cf. Johni. 14, where σὰρξ ἐγένετο corresponds to ἐλη- λνθότα and ἐσκήνωσεν ἐν ἡμῖν to ἐρχόμ- €vov.
Ver. 8. µισθόν, cf. Matt. xx. 8; James v. 4. St. John here addresses not only Kyria but her family and “ the Church in her house”. He views them as his fellow-labourers in the Lord’s vineyard : ‘‘We have worked together (ἠργασάμ- εθα) : see that you do not forfeit the reward of your labour. Get a full wage. Be not like workmen who toward the close of the day fall off, doing their work badly or losing time, and get less than a full day’s pay.” ἀπολέσητε .. « ἠργασάμεθα ... ἀπολάβητε: '' We have been fellow-workers thus far, and I mean to be faithful to the last; see that you also be so”. Their danger lay in taking up with false teaching and losing the
comfort of the Gospel in its simplicity and fulness.
Ver. g. Progress in Theological Thought. ‘ Every one that ‘ progress- eth’ and abideth not in the :eaching of the Christ hath not God; he that abideth in the teaching—this man hath both the Father and the Son.”
6 προάγων : the Cerinthians (sec Introd. pp. 156 f.) boasted of their en- lightenment. They were ‘ progressives,” “advanced thinkers”. τῇ διδαχῇ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, the teaching which recognises Jesus as the Christ (see note on 1 John iv. 1-2), i.e. the Messiah, the Saviour. θΘεὸν οὐκ ἔχει, t.e. according to His true nature as the Father manifested in the Son (καὶ τὸν Πατέρα καὶ τὸν Yidv). It is πεο:ς- sary not merely to beleve in God but to believe in Him ‘through Christ” (t Peter ας ρε].
St. John does not here condemn theo- logical progress, which is a necessity of living and growing faith. A doctrine is a statement of Christian experience, and since there is always more in Christ than we have ever experienced, our doctrines can never be adequate or final. Theology is to God’s revelation in Grace as Science is to His revelation in Nature; and just as Science is always discovering more of the wonders of the First Creation, so Theology is always entering more deeply into the glory of the New Creation and appropriating more of the treasures which are hidden in Christ. Even the inspired Apostles did not comprehend all His ful- ness. Each saw only so much as was revealed to him, and declared only so