A digression. The reference to the Spirit (1 John 3:24) reminds John
that some who claimed to possess the Spirit of God, _e.g._ the false
prophets, did so unjustifiably. Hence his readers must have a token
whereby they may discriminate between true prophets and false. That
token was the nature of th... [ Continue Reading ]
John returns to the theme of 1 John 3:14 ff., be cause if the Church
is the home of truth, still more is it the home of love. The evidence
for our Divine sonship is that the love manifested by God in sending
His Son for our redemption a fact to which the Church bears witness
issues in love on our pa... [ Continue Reading ]