Are there (yeyovacw). Rev., more correctly, have there arisen.
Whereby (dJev). Lit., whence. Only here in John. It is found in Matthew and Luke, and frequently in Hebrews, and not elsewhere.
19. They went out from us (e& juav é&prJav). The phrase went out from, may mean either removal (Apoc. xviii. 4; John viii. 59) or oregin (Apoc. ix. 8; xiv. 13, 15,17; xix. 5, 21). Here the latter, as appears from the following clause. Com- pare Acts xx. 30.
Were not of. See on John i. 46.
No doubt. A needless addition of the A. V.
With us (ue? juadv). “Ev nuiv, among us, would be more according to John’s ordinary usage; but his thought rests here rather on fellowshyp than on the wnety of believers as one body.
They might be made manifest (favepwIaorv). See on John xxi. 1.
They were not all (ov« eicly wdvtes). Rev., more correctly, they all are not.*
20. An unction (ypioua). The word means that with which the anointing is performed—the wnguent or ointment. In the New Testament only here and ver. 27. Rev., an anoint- ing. The root of this word and of Xpioros, Christ, is the same. See on Matt. i.1. Zhe anointing is from the Anointed.
The Holy One. Christ. See John vi. 69; Acts iii. 14; iv. 27, 30; Apoc. iii. 7.
* Because the verb separates not from all. In such cases, according to New Testament usage, the negation is universal. The A, V. not ali makes it partial. See, for instance, 1 John iii. 15; Matt. xxiv. 22.