Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 John 3:12
Who was of the wicked one — Who showed he was a child of the devil by killing his brother. And wherefore slew he him — For any fault? No, but just the reverse; for his goodness.
Who was of the wicked one — Who showed he was a child of the devil by killing his brother. And wherefore slew he him — For any fault? No, but just the reverse; for his goodness.
Verse 12. _NOT AS CAIN_] Men should not act to each other as Cain did to his brother Abel. He murdered him because he was better than himself. But who was Cain? εκτουπονηρουην, _he was_ _of the devil...
NOT AS CAIN - Not manifesting the spirit which Cain did. His was a most remarkable and striking instance of a want of love to a brother, and the case was well adapted to illustrate the propriety of th...
IV. RIGHTEOUSNESS AND LOVE AS MANIFESTED BY THE CHILDREN OF GOD Chapter S 2:28-3:18 __ 1. The children of God and their coming manifestation (1 John 2:28 -1 John 3:3) 2. Sin and the new nature (1...
To commit sin is a breach of God's law, a frustration of God's work of redemption, and the manifestation of a principle which betrays kinship with the devil. A man begotten of God will be in moral aff...
In this the children of God and the children of the devil are made plain; anyone who does not do righteousness is not of God, and neither is he who does not love his brother, because the message that...
REMEMBER THE PRIVILEGES OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (1 John 3:1-2)...
THAT. the. WICKED. App-128. See John 8:44. SLEW. Greek. _sphazo._ Only here and Revelation 5:6; Revelation 5:9; Revel
1 John 2:29 to 1 John 5:12. God is Love There seems to be no serious break in the Epistle from this point onwards until we reach the concluding verses which form a sort of summary (1 John 5:13-21). T...
A brother's love suggests its opposite, a brother's hate, and that in the typical instance of it, the fratricide Cain. _Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one_ Better, as R.V., _Not as_ CAIN WAS _of_...
1 John 2:29 to 1 John 3:12. THE CHILDREN OF GOD AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL...
1 John 2:29 to 1 John 5:12. GOD IS LOVE There seems to be no serious break in the Epistle from this point onwards until we reach the concluding verses which form a sort of summary (1 John 5:13-21). Th...
12. A brother’s love suggests its opposite, a brother’s hate, and that in the typical instance of it, the fratricide Cain. ΟΥ̓ ΚΑΘῺΣ ΚΆΪΝ. As R.V., _Not as_ CAIN WAS _of_ THE EVIL _one_. In A.V. the d...
ΗΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть, ΧΆΡΙΝ ΤΊΝΟΣ (G5101; G5484) ради чего? за что? (RWP). ΈΣΦΑΞΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΦΆΖΩ (G4969) закалывать, убивать, забивать. Это слово часто относилось к...
NOT AS CAIN, &C.— The original is expressive; _Not like Cain! he was of the wicked one, and murdered his brother:_ God forbid therefore that we should be like him. To be _of the wicked one,_ is the sa...
CHAPTER X _DIVINE SONSHIP PROVEN BY ACTIVE LOVE_ (The Second Test. The Second Time) 1 John 3:11-24 A. _The Text_ For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one...
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. WHO - not in the Greek. OF THAT WICKED ONE...
VERSE 12. NOT AS CAIN, WHO WAS OF THAT. This is the opposite of love it is hate. Hate is of the devil. Cain was, therefore, begotten by the devil that is to say, so controlled as to do the works of t...
8 The title..Adversary" has far more aptness than is at first apparent. Satan is known to us only through his word He never appears otherwise than as the evil creature indicated by his titles. From hi...
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD AND THE DUTIES AND PRIVILEGES OF SONSHIP 1. The sons of God] RV 'children of God,' adding the words, 'and _such_ we are.' The word translated 'children' here is characteristi...
CAIN] The typical example of hatred, inspired by the Evil One, and resulting in murder, the germ of which is hatred (1 John 3:15)....
HOW CAN I BE SURE? 1 JOHN _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 3 THE CHILDREN OF GOD DO THE RIGHT THINGS (1 JOHN 3:1-10) V1 See what great love the *Father has given to us! He has called us children of God....
(4) BROTHERLY LOVE THE NECESSARY FLOWER OF THE DIVINE LOVE IN THE DIVINE BIRTH (1 John 3:11). — In 1 John 2:10 St. John showed the necessary connection between righteousness and love; there is no cont...
οὐ καθὼς, κ. τ. λ., a loose, almost ungrammatical expression, analogous to John 6:58. Were there no οὐ, 1 John 3:11 might be regarded as a parenthesis: “he that loveth not his brother, even as Cain wa...
The Evidence of Divine Sonship, _viz._, Human Brotherhood....
The Obligation of our Dignity as Children of God. “Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. And ye know that He was manifested that He might take away the sins; and sin...
THE MARKS OF GOD'S CHILDREN 1 John 3:1 This chapter opens with one of the astounding announcements of Scripture. Why God should have made _us_ His children is incomprehensible, except to show forth t...
The letter now passed to a discussion of the fellowship of the saints with God as love. The hope born of love will have as its inevitable result the purification of those possessing it. The apostle sh...
WHOSE CHILD ARE YOU? We reveal who we are by how we live. The children of the devil habitually sin, while the children of God constantly strive to do God's will. Particularly, God's children will love...
(12) Not as Cain, [who] was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. (13) And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. (12) An amplification taken from th...
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. (5) And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. (6) Whosoever abideth...
12_Not as Cain _This is another confirmation, taken from what is contrary; for in the reprobate and the children of the devil hatred reigns, and it holds, as it were, the chief place in their life; an...
Now to say that we are born of Him is to say that we are children of God. [13] What a love is that which the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children! [14] Therefore the world know...
NOT AS CAIN,.... That is, let us not be like him, or do as he did, hate the brethren. The apostle illustrates brotherly love by its contrary, in the instance of Cain, who was the first instance and ex...
Not as Cain, _who_ was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. Ver. 12. _Who was of that wicked one_] Tertul...
_For_, &c. As if he had said, I have just declared that the want of brotherly love is a proof that a man is not of God, and a little consideration may convince you of the truth of the assertion: for _...
THAT WICKED ONE; the devil, the father of all murderers....
NOT AS CAIN, WHO WAS OF THAT WICKED ONE AND SLEW HIS BROTHER. AND WHEREFORE SLEW HE HIM? BECAUSE HIS OWN WORKS WERE EVIL AND HIS BROTHER'S RIGHTEOUS. So much depends upon the genuineness of Christian...
Doing righteousness:...
This chapter continues the subject introduced in ch.2:28. Verse 29 has shown that righteousness is an absolute requirement. It is indeed a solid, sound basis for the precious bestowal of the love of t...
11-15 We should love the Lord Jesus, value his love, and therefore love all our brethren in Christ. This love is the special fruit of our faith, and a certain sign of our being born again. But none w...
And what again, on the other hand, (q.d.) can be more devil-like, than such a temper as Cain's was, whose hatred of his brother brake out into actual murder, upon no other account but because his brot...
1 John 3:12 not G3756 as G2531 Cain G2535 was G2258 (G5713) of G1537 one G4190 and G2532 murdered...
THE CENTRALITY OF CHRISTIAN LOVE (1 JOHN 3:11 TO 1 JOHN 4:21). The reference to loving one's brother, deliberately added almost as an appendage in 1 John 3:10 in order to introduce the next section, n...
THE ESSENTIAL NATURE OF CHRISTIAN LOVE AS A TEST OF FAITHFULNESS TO GOD (1 JOHN 3:11). In all this we must keep in mind that the emphasis is on loving our brothers who are true to the Gospel, those wh...
‘For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, not as Cain was of the evil one, and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his works were e...
_The relation of regeneration to brotherly love._ 1 John 3:11. FOR THIS IS THE MESSAGE WHICH YE HEARD FROM THE BEGINNING, THAT WE SHOULD LOVE ONE ANOTHER. There is deep emphasis on the word ‘message,'...
The apostle now introduces a new order of thought, governed by the idea of regeneration as the gift of life in Christ to individual man. He first (down to chap. 1 John 3:3) dilates on its glory as a b...
OF THE EVIL ONE (εκ του πονηρου). Ablative case and the same for neuter and masculine singular, but verse 1 John 3:10 makes it clear that the reference is to the devil.SLEW (εσφαξεν). First aorist...
1 John 3:10. In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. For this is the message th...
1 John 3:1. _Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God:_ Behold it, wonder at it, and never cease to admire it. Is it not one of the great...
1 John 3:1. _Behold,_ For there is no greater wonder out of heaven than this: «Behold,» 1 John 3:1. _What manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: t...
I have read this chapter many times in your hearing, but we cannot read it too often, for it is full of the deepest and most important instruction. God grant that fresh light from above may shine upon...
CONTENTS: God's love magnified and the believer exhorted to holiness. Brotherly love urged. How our hearts may be assured before God. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Satan, Cain, John. CONCLUSION: It is a w...
1 John 3:1. _That we should be called the sons of God!_ The character of the favoured race is defined in the preseding verses: they keep the commandments of God: 1 John 3:3. They abide in Christ by wo...
LIKE CAIN. Cain is an example of _hate._ The Greek says literally that Cain _butchered_ his own brother! BECAUSE. "The _bad_ in Cain caused him to hate the _good_ in his brother!" Compare John 3:20; J...
_Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother _ THE WORLD’S HATRED OF THE GODLY I. A reference to the example of Cain. 1. His character--“he was of that wicked one.” He inherited hi...
_Not as Cain._ For he loved himself only, and hated his brother because he saw that his offering was acceptable to God. As God says to Cain (according to LXX), "Hast thou not sinned, if thou offerest...
CHAPTER 3 VER. 1. _Behold what great love the Father hath bestowed on us_ (unworthy, enemies and sinners as we are), _that we should be called, and be the sons of God._ Love, actively, His wondrous lo...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 John 3:7. LITTLE CHILDREN.—τεκνία; not infants, but young and immature disciples. DOETH RIGHTEOUSNESS.—Emphasis lies on “doeth”; habitually does. Doing is opposed to...
EXPOSITION 1 JOHN 3:1 TO 1 JOHN 5:12 3. SECOND MAIN DIVISION. _God is Love._ 1 JOHN 3:1
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God (1 John 3:1): I love that verse. Behold, what manner of love God has bestowed upon you, that you sh...
1 John 2:13; 1 John 2:14; 1 John 3:8; 1 Peter 4:4; 1 Samuel 18:14;...
Cain who was [κ α ι ν η ν]. Who is not in the Greek. The construction is irregular. Lit., as Rev., not as Cain was of the evil one. Slew [ε σ φ α ξ ε ν]. The verb occurs only in John, and only here o...
CHILDREN OF GOD 1 John 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS What a wonderful truth is this: "Now are we the sons of God." What! We who were once children of darkness, are now the children of light; we who were c...