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Verse 11. _BUT HE THAT HATETH HIS BROTHER IS IN DARKNESS_] He is still
in his heathen or unconverted state; and _walketh in_ _darkness_, his
conduct being a proof of that state; _and knoweth not_ _whi...
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BUT HE THAT HATETH HIS BROTHER - The word here used would, in this
connection, include both the mere absence of love, and positive
hatred. It is designed to include the whole of that state of mind
whe...
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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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He who says that he is in the light, and who at the same time hates
his brother, is still in the darkness. He who loves his brother abides
in the light, and there is nothing in him which makes him stu...
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A PASTOR'S CONCERN (1 John 2:1-2)...
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KNOWETH. App-132.
GOETH. Compare John 12:35.
HATH. Omit.
BLINDED. Greek. _tuphloo._ See 2 Corinthians 4:4....
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The form of these three verses is similar to that of 1 John 2:3, and
still more so to 1 John 1:8-10. In each of these three triplets a case
is placed between two statements of the opposite to it; conf...
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_is in darkness and walketh in darkness_ THE _darkness_is his home and
the scene of his activity. -The way of the wicked is as darkness: they
know not at what they stumble" (Proverbs 4:19).
_knoweth n...
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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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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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9–11. The form of these three verses is similar to that of 1 John
2:3-5, and still more so to 1 John 1:8-10. In each of these three
triplets a case is placed between two statements of the opposite to...
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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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1 John 1:5 to 1 John 2:28. GOD IS LIGHT...
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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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ἘΝ ΤΗ͂Ι ΣΚ. ἘΣΤΊΝ, Κ. ἘΝ ΤΗ͂Ι ΣΚ. Π. The
_darkness_ is his home and the sphere of his activity. The contrast
between the godly and the wicked is similarly indicated in Proverbs
4:18-19 : αἱ δὲ ὁδοὶ τῶ...
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ΜΙΣΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΜΙΣΈΩ (G3404)
ненавидеть,
ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΕΊ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΕΡΙΠΑΤΈΩ (G4043)
ходить, вести образ жизни. _Praes._
изображает длительное текущее
событие: "он ходит"
ΟΊΔΕΝ _...
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BUT HE THAT HATETH HIS BROTHER— Here is all along an evident
allusion to one person's walking in the open day-light and another's
walking in a very dark night: the one walks securely, and avoids all
d...
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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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But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in
darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath
blinded his eyes.
IS IN DARKNESS, AND WALKETH. "Is" marks his c...
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VERSE 11. BUT HE THAT HATETH HIS BROTHER.
In this case the reverse is true. Occasion for stumbling is ever
present. Here there is no light, all is darkness, and one hating his
brother is walking in da...
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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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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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But, for the Christian who hates another Christian, there is no
*light. He is wrong when he hates another Christian. He does not obey
the command and he is in error. He is like someone in the dark. A...
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Here (1 John 2:9) is the chief way in which the old commandment, the
new commandment, the word from the beginning, the walk in light would
be manifested: brotherly love towards those with whom we have...
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St. John recognises no neutral attitude between “love” and
“hatred”. Love is active benevolence, and less than this is
hatred, just as indifference to the Gospel-call amounts to rejection
of it (_cf._...
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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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THOSE IN THE LIGHT LOVE THE BRETHREN
The claim to be in the light, therefore in fellowship with God (1 John
1:5-7), is easily tested by our attitude toward our brethren. God
displayed such love for th...
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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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11._But he that hateth his brother. _He again reminds us, that
whatever specious appearance of excellency thou shewest, there is yet
nothing but what is sinful if love be absent. This passage may be
c...
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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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BUT HE THAT HATETH HIS BROTHER IS IN DARKNESS,.... As is before
expressed in 1 John 2:9, to which is added,
AND WALKETH IN DARKNESS; he goes on in it, and takes delight in it, as
dangerous and uncomf...
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But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in
darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath
blinded his eyes.
Ver. 11. _He that hateth, &c._] There is a passi...
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_He that saith he is in the light_ In Christ; united to him, and truly
enlightened by the gospel and the grace of God; _and_ yet _hateth his
brother_ (The very name shows the love due to him;) _is in...
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IS IN DARKNESS; being blinded by hatred, he walks on in darkness, and
stumbles into perdition....
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Abiding in the light:...
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BUT HE THAT HATETH HIS BROTHER IS IN DARKNESS, AND WALKETH IN
DARKNESS, AND KNOWETH NOT WHITHER HE GOETH, BECAUSE THAT DARKNESS HATH
BLINDED HIS EYES.
The chief factor in the life of believers is love...
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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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Hath no principle to guide or govern him, but what is common to the
unregenerate world, so that his whole life is a continual error; nor
doth he understand or consider the tendency of his course, bein...
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A Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian by an Anonymous Bishop
Hast thou not read, that "he who hateth his brother is in darkness,
and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because t...
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1 John 2:11 But G1161 hates G3404 (G5723) his G846 brother G80 is
G2076 (G5748) in G1722 darkness...
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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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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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_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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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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BLINDED
(ετυφλωσεν). First aorist active indicative of τυφλοω,
the very verb and form used in 2 Corinthians 4:4 of the god of this
age to keep men from beholding the illumination of the gospel of th...
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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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BUT WHOEVER. "The one who hates his brother is blind, and does not
know he is blind. The darkness of sin and error prevents him from
being able to see what is right, and it kills the good impulses whi...
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1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 2:9 HATES HIS BROTHER. John often uses
strongly contrasting terms for emphasis (e.g., light vs. darkness,
truth vs. lies). DARKNESS HAS BLINDED HIS EYES. “Darkness” and
“blindnes...
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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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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 2:9; 2 Corinthians 3:14; 2 Corinthians 4:4; John 12:35; Joh
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Is - walketh - whither. The condition of him who hates is viewed as
related to being, action, and tendency.
He goeth [υ π α γ ε ι]. Or, is going. See on John 6:21; John
8:21.
Hath blinded [ε τ υ φ λ...