[2010] Ps. xxxiv. 5.
[2011] 1 John i. 6.
[2012] 2 Cor. vi. 14.
[2013] Eph. vi. 12.
[2014] [Fellowship.--The primary object of the apostle's communication in this epistle (1 John i. 3), is that his readers may have fellowship with the apostolic body, and, in connection with them, fellowship with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ. St. John's message contemplates both a human and a Divine fellowship. The union among believers is described and emphasized, and he points also to the manifold blessings that flow from the Divine fellowship. The fruits of this revelation--of the disclosures of the love of God,--the apostle intimates are not for that age only, but for all who should afterwards believe; a thought which Augustin brings out in the text by adducing the history of Thomas (John xx. 24-29), and the consolation administered to him by the Lord, with the wider comfort for all His disciples: "Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet believe." The life, "even the life eternal," is manifested in this joyous fellowship, which is set forth by St. John in different forms of expression; it is reciprocal. "Hereby we know that we abide in Him and He in us" (1 John iv. 13). Again, it is presented as the abiding of man in God: "By this we know that we are in Him" (ii. 5). "We know that the Son of God hath come, and we are in Him is true" (v.20). Again, the twofold fellowship (human and Divine), is represented as the abiding of God (or Christ) in man. "If we love one another, God abideth in us" (iv. 12). Among the results of this Divine-human fellowship, the apostle names, confidence, growing purity and love (ii. 28; iii. 3, 10).--J.H.M.]
[2015] 1 John i. 7.
[2016] [Gr. present, katharixei, cleanseth.]
[2017] Delicto.
[2018] Col. ii. 14.
[2019] The newly baptized.
[2020] Neophytes.
[2021] 1 John i. 8.
[2022] Delicta.
[2023] 1 John i. 9.
[2024] 1 Pet. iv. 8.
[2025] Ps. li. 9, 3.
[2026] 1 John i. 9, 10.
[2027] Rom. iii. 4.
[2028] 1 John ii. 1.
[2029] 1 John ii. 1, 2.
[2030] Ructavit.
[2031] Col. iv. 3.
[2032] Matt. xxiv. 23.
[2033] Ps. cxxxii. 6.
[2034] In hoc cognoscimus eum; si: but all the Greek copies, en touto ginoskomen hoti egnokamen auton, ean. Vulg. In hoc scimus quoniam cognovimus eum, si.
[2035] 1 John ii. 3, 4.
[2036] 1 John ii. 5.
[2037] John xiii. 34.
[2038] 1 John ii. 5. Si in ipso perfecti fuerimus. Augustin and two or three Latin mss.: an addition unknown to the Greek and to the other copies of the Latin.
[2039] Luke xxiii. 34.
[2040] Matt. v. 48.
[2041] 1 John ii. 6.
[2042] 1 John ii. 7.
[2043] John xiii. 34.
[2044] 1 John ii. 8.
[2045] Col. iii. 9, 10.
[2046] Eph. v. 8.
[2047] 1 John ii. 9.
[2048] Matt. v. 44.
[2049] Si autem oditis. So ed. Erasm. and four mss. cited in ed. Louvain, which however has in the text oderitis. One ms. cited ibid. has, Si autem odistis. Edd. Lugd. and Ven. have si autem auditis, "if ye are called brethren." Four Oxf. mss. oditis.
[2050] Eph. v. 8.
[2051] 1 John ii. 10.
[2052] Ps. cxxi. 6.
[2053] John vi. 54-69.
[2054] So in Epist. 173, sec. 30, Augustin writes, Attendis enim et sæpe repetis, sicut audio, quod in Evangelio scriptum est recessisse a Domino septuaginta discipules....cæterisque duodecim qui remanserant fuisse responsum, Numquid et vos vultis abire? The notion entertained by some of the Ancients and, as it seems, by St. Augustin, that the disciples who took offense at our Lord's discourse in the synagogue of Capernaum were the Seventy, may have been derived from the Hypotyposes of St. Clem. Alex. (comp. Euseb. H. E. i. 12) or one of the Clementines. (Thus S. Epiphanius Hær. 51, p. 186, 188, relates from some such authority, that the Evangelists Mark and Luke were of the number of the Seventy, and of those who were offended; and that they were reclaimed to the faith, the one by St. Peter, the other by St. Paul.) But the notion, from whatever quarter it came, seems to have no foundation in Scripture, since it is sufficiently evident that the mission of the Seventy, Luke x. 1, was subsequent to the first miracle of feeding, John vi.; Luke ix. 12.
[2055] Verbum.
[2056] 2 Cor. xi. 29.
[2057] Donatists.
[2058] Ps. cxix. 165.
[2059] John xiii. 34.
[2060] Eph. iv. 2, 3.
[2061] Gal. vi. 2.
[2062] 1 John ii. 11.
[2063] Supra, Hom. in Ev. iv. 4; Dan. ii. 34, 35.
[2064] Luna tertia; i.e. the moon at its first appearance: for the first phasis in Africa as in Egypt usually took place on the third day after conjunction. See the passages cited from Geminus in the Uranolog. vii. 39, B. Horapoll, Hieroglyph. i. 66, in Mr. Greswell's Dissertations on the Harmony of the Gospels, vol. i. p. 323, note.
[2065] Gen. xxii. 18.
[2066] Matt. v. 14.
[2067] Isa. ii. 2.
[2068] See on Ps. xxxvii. Ser. 2.