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Verse 8. _WHICH THING IS TRUE IN HIM AND IN YOU_] It is true that
Christ loved the world so well as to lay down his life for it; and it
was true in them, in all his faithful followers at that time, w...
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AGAIN, A NEW COMMANDMENT I WRITE UNTO YOU - “And yet, that which I
write to you, and particularly enjoin on you, deserves in another
sense to be called a new commandment, though it has been also
incul...
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II. LIGHT AND DARKNESS AND THE TESTS
Chapter S 1:5-2:17
_ 1. God is light; walking in darkness and in light (1 John 1:5)_
2. What the light manifests (1 John 1:8)
3. The advocacy of Christ to maint...
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OBEDIENCE THE PROOF OF FELLOWSHIP. Here John repeats in a positive way
the teaching of the previous section. Conduct cannot be, as the false
teachers claimed, a matter of indifference, for true knowle...
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Beloved, it is not a new commandment which I am writing to you, but an
old commandment which you had from the beginning, the old commandment
is the word which you heard. Again, it is a new commandment...
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A PASTOR'S CONCERN (1 John 2:1-2)...
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TRUE. App-175.
IS PAST. passes away. Greek. _parago,_ as 1 John 2:17.
TRUE. App-175.
LIGHT. App-130.
NOW. already. Greek. _ede_.
SHINETH. App-106....
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Love of the Brethren
7 11. Walking in the light involves not only fellowship with God and
with the brethren (1 John 1:5-7), consciousness and confession of sin
(1 John 1:8-10), obedience by imitation...
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_Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true_ Or,
_Again_, AS _a new commandment I write unto you_ A THING WHICH _is
true_. Or, _Again, a new commandment write I unto you_, NAMELY T...
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1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. God is Light
1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:11. What Walking in the Light involves
This section is largely directed against the Gnostic do
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1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:11. WHAT WALKING IN THE LIGHT INVOLVES
This section is largely directed against the Gnostic doctrine that to
the man of enlightenment all conduct is morally indifferent. Against...
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1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. GOD IS LIGHT...
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7–11. LOVE OF THE BRETHREN
7–11. Walking in the light involves not only fellowship with God and
with the brethren (1 John 1:5-7), consciousness and confession of sin
(1 John 1:8-10), obedience by imit...
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8. For ΣΚΟΤΊΑ ([478][479] and Versions) [480] has σκία.
[478] 4th century. Brought to Rome about 1460. It is entered in the
earliest catalogue of the Vatican Library, 1475. All three Epistles.
[479] 5...
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ΆΛΗΘΉΣ (G227) истинный, подлинный. Это
слово обозначает не только истинность
логического содержания; новизна
заповеди любви в настоящее время
проявляется в Христе и адресатах
письма (Schnackenburg),...
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DISCOURSE: 2436
THE TRUE LIGHT
1 John 2:8. _The darkness is past, and the true light now shineth_.
OUR blessed Lord is supposed by many to have enlarged the demands of
the moral law. That he speaks o...
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AGAIN,— Or, _on the other hand._ The apostle, as it were, checks
himself for what he had said 1 John 2:7. See the like use of the word
παλιν, Matthew 4:7. The same commandment may, upon different
acco...
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CHAPTER V
_TO WALK IN THE LIGHT IS TO SHARE
GOD'S ATTITUDE TOWARD OUR BROTHERS IN CHRIST_
(The Second Test. The First Time)
1 John 2:7-17
A.
_The Text_
Beloved, no new commandment write I unto yo...
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Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him
and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now
shineth.
A NEW COMMANDMENT. It was "old," in that Christians a...
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VERSE 8. AGAIN, A NEW COMMANDMENT.
New in a sense not fully understood, and not so fully taught until
Christ came. While in substance it was old, in the sense I here now
refer to, it is new. Love is...
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1 The ministry of John is based upon his personal acquaintance with
the Lord in the flesh.
Indeed, this was the prime qualification of all the twelve apostles
(Act_1:21). They were to bear witness to...
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THE ADVOCACY OF CHRIST AND THE OBLIGATIONS OF BELIEVERS
1. My little children] The diminutive implies the fatherly care which
the aged Apostle felt for his disciples. ADVOCATE] The word thus
translate...
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A NEW COMMANDMENT] The commandment of love, old as it now is in one
sense, is in another new, as it ever gains fresh light and meaning.
THE DARKNESS, etc.] RV 'the darkness is passing away, and the tr...
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HOW CAN I BE SURE?
1 JOHN
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 2
CHRIST SPEAKS FOR US AND WE SHOULD OBEY GOD (1 JOHN 2:1-6)
V1 My *children, I write these things to you so that you will not
*sin. But if you...
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The fourth inference from the doctrine that God is Light analyses more
accurately the general expression of 1 John 1:7, _walking in the
light._ If Christ is, as in 1 John 2:1, the Paraclete and Propit...
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πάλιν, “again,” _i.e._ in another sense, from another point
of view, not in itself but in our recognition of it, “it is a new
commandment”. ὅ ἐστιν ἀληθές, in apposition to
ἐντολήν “a thing which is t...
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A New Meaning in an Old Commandment. “Beloved, it is no new
commandment that I am writing to you, but an old commandment which ye
had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye
heard...
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KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENT OF LOVE
1 John 2:1
It is clearly possible to be kept from known and presumptuous sin. We
shall be tempted, for that is an inevitable experience of life in this
world; but we m...
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Affirming that the purpose of his writing is that we sin not, the
writer declared that even if we sin, provision is made by which it may
be put away. The tests whereby we may know our relation to ligh...
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FEELINGS ARE NOT A VALID TEST
There are those who answer the question, "Do you know God?", by
saying, "Yes, I can feel His presence in my heart." While it may help
one to feel he has God's presence wi...
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(7) Again, a new commandment I write unto you, (h) which thing is true
in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light
now shineth.
(7) He adds that the doctrine indeed is old, bu...
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An old commandment.... and again, a new commandment. He means the
commandment of charity, or of the love of God and the love of our
neighbour. This he calls both an old and a new precept. It may be
ca...
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Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment
which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which
ye have heard from the beginning. (8) Again, a new commandm...
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8_Again, a new commandment _Interpreters do not appear to me to have
attained the meaning of the Apostle. He says _new_, because God, as it
were, renews it by daily suggesting it, so that the faithful...
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If, on the other hand, we have even committed sin and all, being
judged according to the light, is confessed (so that the will no
longer takes part in it, the pride of that will being broken down), He...
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AGAIN, A NEW COMMANDMENT I WRITE UNTO YOU,.... Which is the same with
the former, considered in different respects. The command of brotherly
love is a new one; that is, it is an excellent one, as a ne...
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Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him
and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now
shineth.
Ver. 8. _A new commandment_] _See Trapp on "_ Joh 13:34...
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_I write no new commandment_ Ministers must avoid all suspicion and
affectation of novelty in their doctrine. _But an old commandment_
Concerning holiness of life, and loving one another. _Which ye ha...
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AGAIN, A NEW COMMANDMENT; as much as to say, I have called it an old
commandment; but there is a sense in which it is new.
WHICH THING IS TRUE; it is true that it is a new commandment.
IN HIM AND IN...
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“My children, these things I write to you in order that ye may not
sin; and if anyone sin, we have a patron with the Father, Jesus Christ
the righteous” (JND). If we have seen some absolute, positive...
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3-11 What knowledge of Christ can that be, which sees not that he is
most worthy of our entire obedience? And a disobedient life shows
there is neither religion nor honesty in the professor. The love...
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OLBGrk;
Yet also he calls it _a new commandment, _ as our Saviour did, 1
THESSALONIANS 13:34, upon the subjoined accounts. WHICH THING IS TRUE;
i.e. evident, or verified, fulfilled, exemplified. IN HI...
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Tertullian On Modesty
Nay, but this whole world is the one house of all; in which world it
is more the heathen, who is found in darkness, whom the grace of God
enlightens, than the Christian, who is...
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1 John 2:8 Again G3825 new G2537 commandment G1785 write G1125 (G5719)
you G5213 thing G3739 is G2076 ...
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THE OLD COMMANDMENT AND THE NEW COMMANDMENT (1 JOHN 2:7).
Here John stresses the need to stand by what they have originally
learned and experienced and by the Light that is already shining among
them...
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‘Again, a new commandment I do write to you, which thing is true in
him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true
light already shines. He who says he is in the light and hates hi...
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First the apostle announces his message that God is light and only
light (1 John 1:5). Then follows (down to chap. 1 John 2:2) a
universal statement of the evangelical conditions of fellowship with
Hi...
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_The new commandment, which is also old: that of brotherly love, 1
John 2:7_.
1 John 2:7. Beloved introducing a new view of the subject by a term
appropriate, NO NEW COMMANDMENT WRITE I UNTO YOU, BUT...
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AGAIN A NEW COMMANDMENT
(παλιν εντολην καινην). Paradox, but truth. Old in
teaching (as old as the story of Cain and Abel, 3:11f.), but new in
practice. For this use of παλιν for a new turn see John...
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1 John 2:8
A New Commandment.
I. I will try to show you that this commandment is old, and yet new.
But we may as well see, first of all, what the commandment is. John
does not quite say in the text w...
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1 John 2:1. _My little children, these things write I unto you, that
ye sin not._
For this we ought to watch and strive, that we sin not.
1 John 2:1. _And if any man sin-_
What then? Is it a hopele...
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1 John 2:1. My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye
sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our...
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CONTENTS: Christ's advocacy for the believer. Tests of fellowship,
obedience and love. Warning against worldliness and apostates.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, John, Satan, anti-christ.
CONCLUSION: To kno...
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1 John 2:2. _He is the propitiation for our sin:_ ιλασμος, a
ram, or other victim offered as an atoning sacrifice for sin. On
Genesis 15:9, the rabbins make a distinction between the heifer, the
she g...
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HOWEVER. "This command I write to you to live just as Jesus Christ
did, is new. Its truth is seen in Christ as he laid down his life for
men (mankind), and its truth is also seen in you as you live ju...
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1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 2:7 The Unchanging Commandment in a Changing
World. John emphasizes the love commandment. He then describes the
challenge of living as a Christian in a dark world (vv....
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1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 2:8 THE DARKNESS IS PASSING AWAY. The age to
come has not yet fully arrived (see 1 John 3:2), but it is getting
closer....
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CHAPTER 2 VER. 1. _My little children, these things write I unto you,
that ye sin not._ At the end of the last chapter it was said that all
who were grown up had sinned, either mortally as heathens, o...
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_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
1 John 2:8. NEW COMMANDMENT.—St. John seems to refer to his demand
of love to the brethren, as the satisfactory sign of heart-obedience,
son-like obedience to the Fathe...
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EXPOSITION
1 JOHN 2:1, 1 JOHN 2:2
Moreover, walking in the light involves accepting the propitiation
wrought through Jesus Christ the Righteous.
The connexion with the preceding is close. We have ju...
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My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not (1
John 2:1).
Now, he is talking about the purpose of writing is to bring you into
fellowship with God, but the thing that breaks fel...
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1 John 3:14; 1 John 4:11; 1 John 4:21; 1 Peter 1:21; 1 Peter 4:1;...
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New commandment. The commandment of love is both old and new. Old,
because John's readers have had it from the beginning of their
Christian experience. New, because, in the unfolding of Christian
expe...
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Again, I do write a new commandment to you — Namely, with regard to
loving one another. A commandment which, though it also was given long
ago, yet is truly new in him and in you. It was exemplified i...