(6.) Jesus His (God’s) Son. i. 7. Two truths. The blood of Christ is avadlable and efficacious.
(7). His (God’s) Son, His only Son. iv.9. The uniqueness of the gift is the manifestation of love.
The Son in various forms is eminently characteristic of the First and Second Epistles, in which it occurs more times than in all Paul’s Epistles.
Kipws Lord, is not found in the Epistles (omit from 2 John 3), but occurs in the Gospel, and often in the Apocalypse.
The expression, the blood of Jesus His Son, is chosen with a profound insight. Though Ignatius uses the phrase blood of God, yet the word blood is inappropriate to the Son conceived in His divine nature. The word Jesus brings out His human nature, in which He assumed a veal body of flesh and blood, which blood was shed for us.
Cleanseth (xa9apifer). See on Mark vii.19. Not only for- gives but removes. Compare Tit. ii. 14; Heb. ix. 13 sq.; 22 sq.; Eph. y. 26 sq. ; Matt. v. 8; 1 John iii. 3. Compare also ver. 9, where forgive (a9) and cleanse (xaSapion) occur, with an obvious difference of meaning. Note the present tense cleanseth. The cleansing is present and continuous. Alexander (Bishop of Derry) cites a striking passage from Victor Hugo (“ Le Parri- cide”). The usurper Canute, who has had a share in his father’s death, expiring after a virtuous and glorious reign, walks towards the light of heaven. But first he cuts with his sword a shroud of snow from the top of Mt. Savo. As he advances towards heaven, a cloud forms, and drop by drop his shroud is soaked with a rain of blood.
All sin (3dons duaprias). Tne principle of sin in all its forms and manifestations; not the separate manifestations. Compare all joy (Jas. i. 2); all patience (2 Cor. xii. 12); alt wisdom (Eph. i. 8); all diligence (2 Pet. i. 5).
8. That we have no sin. “Ore that, may be taken merely as a mark of quotation: “If we say, sin we have not.” On the phrase to have sin, see on John xvi. 22, and compare have fel-