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heard from the beginning. If gresseth also the law: for sin is

that which ye have heard from the beginning shall abide in you, ye also will abide in the Son, and in the Father.

25 And this is the promise which he promised us, even aionian life. 26 These things I write to you concerning those who would deceive you. 27 But the unction which ye have received from him abideth in you, and ye need not that any one teach you: but as that unction teacheth you of all things, and is true, and is not falsehood, even as it hath taught you, abide in him. 28 And now, dear children, abide in him; that, when he shall be manifested, we may have confidence, and may not be ashamed before him at his appearance.

29 Ir ye know that he is righteous, be assured that every one who worketh righteousness is born of him.

CH. III. 1 Behold what great love the Father hath bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God: the world therefore knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

a transgression of the law. 5 And ye know that Christ was manifested to take away [our] sins and in him is no sin. 6 Whosoever abideth in him, sinneth not: whosoever sinneth, hath not seen him, nor known him.

7 Dear children, let no one deceive you. He who worketh righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous: 8 he who committeth sin, is of the impostor;* for the impostor hath sinned from the beginning: for this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the impostor. 9 Whosoever is born of God, doth not commit sin; for his seed abideth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the impostor: whosoever doth not practice righteousness, is not of God; nor he who loveth not his brother.

11 For this is the charge which ye heard from the beginning, that we love one another. 12 Not as Cain, who was 2 Beloved, now we are the of that evil disposition, and slew children of God, and it hath his brother. And why did he not yet been manifested what slay him? Because his own we shall be: [but] we know works were evil, and his brothat, when Christ shall be mani- ther's righteous. 13 Wonder fested, we shall be like him; not, [my] brethren, if the world for we shall see him as he is. hate you. 14 We know that 3 And every one who placeth we have passed over from death this hope in him, purifieth him- to life, because we love the self, even as he is pure. 4 Who- brethren. He who loveth not soever committeth sin, trans-his brother abideth in death.

not a real, but a hypothetical and fictitious being: the principle of evil personified: the supposed cause of evil. See Ch. ii. 13, 14.

15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a manslayer: and ye know that no manslayer hath aionian life abiding in him. 16 Hereby we know the love of God, because that person laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whosoever hath the good things of the world, and seeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how abideth the love of God in him? 18 [My] dear children, let us not love in word and tongue only, but in deed and truth. 19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. 20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. 21 Beloved, if our hearts condemn us not, then we have confidence towards God: 22 and whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things which are pleasing in his sight. 23 And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and should love one another as he hath given us commandment. 24 And he who keepeth his commandments abideth in Him, and He in him. And hereby, we know that he abideth in us, by the spirit which he hath given us.

CH. IV. 1 BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby ye know the spirit of God: every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh,* is of God. 3 And every spirit which confesseth not Jesus, is not of God. And this is that spirit of antichrist, of which ye have heard it should come; and it is now already in the world.

4 Dear children, ye are of God, and have overcome them: for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5 They are of the world: therefore they speak of the world, and the world heareth them. 6 We are of God. He who knoweth God, heareth us: he who is not of God, heareth not us. Hereby we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

7 BELOVED, let us love one another: for love is of God: and every one who loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He who loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 Herein the love of God was manifested towards us; that God sent his well-beloved Sont into the world, that we might live through him.

10 Herein is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be a

* That is, that Jesus Christ was a real man, in opposition to the Gnostics and Docete who taught that Christ was a man only in appearance. See Dr. Priestley in loco.

+ Gr. only-begotten Son. It is applied to Isaac, Heb. xi. 17, though Abraham had other sons. The same word in the Hebrew is translated indifferently μovoyevns only-begotten, and ayaяntos well-beloved. This word μovoyevns is applied to Christ by the evangelist John four times in the gospel, and once in this epistle and by no other writers of the New Testament. See John i. 14, 18.

propitiation for our sins.* 11 | brother, whom he hath seen,

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and the love of him is perfected in us. 13 Hereby we know that we abide in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his spirit. 14 And we have seen, and we bear witness, that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love which God hath to us. God is love; and he who abideth in love, abideth in God, and God in him. 17 Hereby love is perfected among us; to the end that we may have confidence in the day of judgment: because as that person is, so are we in this world.

18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment: wherefore he who feareth is not made perfect in love. 19 We love him, because he first loved us. 20 If any one say, "I love God," and yet hate his brother, he speaketh falsely: for how can he who loveth not his

love God, whom he hath not seen? 21 And we have this commandment from him, that he who loveth God, love his brother also.

CH. V. 1 WHOSOEVER believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God; and whosoever loveth the Father, loveth also the Son.† 2 Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments; 3 for this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not burdensome; 4 for all that is born of God, overcometh the world, and this is the victory which overcometh the world, even our faith. 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he who believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

6 This is he who came with water and blood, even Jesus Christ not with water only, but with water and blood. And it is the spirit which beareth testimony; for the spirit is truth.‡ 7 For there are three that bear testimony, 8 the spirit, and the water, and the blood. and these three agree in one. 9 If we receive the testimony of man, the testimony of God is greater: for this is the testimony

i. e. to be the medium of the reconciliation of sinners by his gospel. See chap. ii. 2. Gr. and whosoever loveth him who begat, loveth him also who is begotten by him. The received text reads, "For there are three who bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth." N. B. This text concerning the heavenly witnesses is not contained in any Greek manuscript which was written earlier than the fifteenth century. It is not cited by any of the Greek ecclesiastical writers; nor by any of the early Latin fathers, even when the subjects upon which they treat would naturally have led them to appeal to its authority. It is therefore evidently spurious; and was first cited (though not as it now reads) by Virgilius Tapsensis, a Latin writer of no credit, in the latter end of the fifth century; but by whom forged, is of no great moment, as its design must be obvious to all. See Im. Ver. note.

of God, which he hath testified one see his brother sin a sin of his Son.

which is not unto death, let him ask, and he will give him life, for those who sin not unto death.* There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall petition concerning this: 17 all unrigh

10 He who believeth on the Son of God, hath the testimony in himself: he who believeth not God, maketh him false, because he believeth not the testimony which God hath testi-teousness is sin and there is a fied of his Son. 11 And this is sin not unto death. the testimony, that God hath 18 We know that whosoever given to us aionian life; and is born of God sinneth not; this life is in his Son. 12 He but he who is born of God who hath the Son, hath life; keepeth himself, and the evil and he who hath not the Son | propensity hurteth him not. 19 of God, hath not life. 13 These We know that we are from God; things I write to you, that ye and the whole world lieth in may know that ye have aionian | wickedness.† 20 And we know life, who believe in the name that the Son of God hath been of the Son of God.

14 And this is the confidence which we have in him; that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us. 15 And if we know that he heareth us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we ask of him. 16 If any

sent, and hath given us an understanding that we might acquire a knowledge of Him who is true: and we are in Him who is true, being in his Son [Jesus Christ]. This is the true God and the aionian life. 21 Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.

THE SECOND EPISTLE OF JOHN.S

1 THE Elder to the chosen but all those likewise who know Cyria, and to her children, whom I truely love; (and not I only,

the truth;) 2 because of the truth which abideth in us, and

Sin and disease were considered as so inseparably connected, according to the Jewish philosophy, that, perhaps, the apostle might mean nothing more by the advice which he here gives, than to recommend prayer for the sick where the disease was curable, and to dissuade from unbecoming importunity where the malady was evidently incurable, and fatal. See John ix. 2,34; Matt. ix. 1-8. See Dr. Priestley in loco.

†The heathen world is figuratively represented as under the dominion of Satan. Compare 1 Cor. v. 5, and the note there.

That ouros this, sometimes refers to the remote antecedent, see Acts ii. 22, 23; vii. 18, 19; 2 John 7. It here refers to 7 aλndivy the true one, or Him who is true, in the preceding clause.

See John xii. 50. xvii. 3.

The second and third epistles of John are placed by Eusebius amongst the books whose ge nuineness had been called in question: but this was probably owing to their brevity, and to their

which will be with us to the age: 3 favour, mercy, and peace be with you, from God the Father, and from [the Lord] Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

4 I REJOICED greatly, that I found some of thy children walking in the truth, according as we have received commandment from the Father. 5 And now I beseech thee, Cyria, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. 6 And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment; as ye have heard from the beginning, to the intent that ye should walk in it.

7 For many deceivers have entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.* Such an

one is a deceiver, and an antichrist.

8 Take heed to yourselves; that we lose not those things which we have done, but that we receive a full reward.

9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine [of Christ], hath both the Father and the Son.

10 If any one come to you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, nor greet him: 11 for he who greeteth him, is a partaker of his evil deeds.

12 Having many things to write to you, I am not inclined to communicate them by paper and ink: for I hope to come to you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full. 13 The children of thy chosen sister salute thee.

THE THIRD EPISTLE OF JOHN.

no greater joy than in these things, to hear that my children walk in truth.

1 THE Elder to the beloved | thou walkest in truth. 4 I have Gaius, whom I truely love. 2 Beloved, I wish that thou mayest prosper in all things, and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth: 3 for I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and bare testimony of the truth which is in thee, according as

5 Beloved, thou dost faithfully, whatsoever thou performest for the brethren and for the strangers; 6 who have borne testimony of thy love before

being addressed to particular persons; for, as Dr. Priestley observes, "both the subjects and the language are so much the same with those of the former epistle, that there cannot be a doubt of their having the same author."

* i. e. who confess not that he is a real man; alluding to the errors of the Docetæ,

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