1 John 3:1-12
1 John 2:29 to 1 John 3:12. THE CHILDREN OF GOD AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL... [ Continue Reading ]
1 John 2:29 to 1 John 3:12. THE CHILDREN OF GOD AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL... [ Continue Reading ]
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). The key-word ‘love’ is distributed, and not very unevenly, over the whole, from 1 John 3:1 to 1 John 5... [ Continue Reading ]
1. After ΚΛΗΘΩ͂ΜΕΝ insert καὶ ἐσμέν with [582][583][584][585][586], Justin Martyr and Versions against [587][588]. [589][590][591] have ὑμᾶς for ἩΜΑ͂Σ. [582] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the monastery of S. Catherine on Mount Sinai, and now at Petersburg. All three Epistles. [58... [ Continue Reading ]
2. After ΟἼΔΑΜΕΝ omit δέ with [592][593][594][595] against [596][597]. [592] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the monastery of S. Catherine on Mount Sinai, and now at Petersburg. All three Epistles. [593] 5th century. Brought by Cyril Lucar, Patriarch of Constantinople, from Alexand... [ Continue Reading ]
ΠΑ͂Σ Ὁ ἜΧΩΝ. Once more, as in 1 John 2:23; 1 John 2:29, the Apostle explicitly states that there is _no_ exception to the principle laid down. It is not only a general rule that he who has this hope of becoming like God purifies himself, but it is a rule without any exceptions; ΠΑ͂Σ Ὁ ἜΧΩΝ. There is... [ Continue Reading ]
4. As so often, the Apostle emphasizes his statement by giving the opposite case, and not the simple opposite, but an expansion of it. Instead of saying ‘every one that hath not this hope’ he says EVERY ONE THAT DOETH _sin_. The A.V. not only obscures this antithesis by changing ‘every man’ to ‘whos... [ Continue Reading ]
5. After ἉΜΑΡΤΊΑΣ omit ἡμῶν with [598][599] and most Versions against [600][601][602][603] and the Thebaic. [604] and the Thebaic have ΟἼΔΑΜΕΝ for οἴδατε. [598] 5th century. Brought by Cyril Lucar, Patriarch of Constantinople, from Alexandria, and afterwards presented by him to Charles I. in 1628. I... [ Continue Reading ]
ΠΑ͂Σ Ὁ ΜΈΝΩΝ. EVERY ONE THAT _abideth_. Here, as in 1 John 2:23; 1 John 2:29; 1 John 3:3-4; 1 John 3:9-10; 1 John 3:15; 1 John 4:7; 1 John 5:1; 1 John 5:4; 1 John 5:18, it is well to bring out in translation the full sweep of the Ap [ Continue Reading ]
7. [605][606] have παιδία for ΤΕΚΝΊΑ ([607][608][609][610]). [605] 5th century. Brought by Cyril Lucar, Patriarch of Constantinople, from Alexandria, and afterwards presented by him to Charles I. in 1628. In the British Museum. All three Epistles. [606] 5th century. A palimpsest: the original writi... [ Continue Reading ]
8. Ὁ ΠΟΙΩ͂Ν Τ. ἉΜΑΡΤ. _He that_ DOETH _sin_, as in 1 John 3:4, to bring out the contrast with ‘he that _doeth_ righteousness.’ _Qui facit peccatum_. The first half of this verse is closely parallel to the second half of 1 John 3:7. The habitual doer of sin has the devil as the source (ἐκ), not of hi... [ Continue Reading ]
9. This is the opposite of 1 John 3:8, as 1 John 3:8 of 1 John 3:7; but, as usual, not the plain opposite, but something deduced from it, is stated. ΠΑ͂Σ Ὁ ΓΕΓΕΝΝΗΜΈΝΟΣ ἘΚ Τ. Θ. _Every one that_ (see on 1 John 3:6) _is_ BEGOTTEN _of God_. Note the perfect tense; ‘every one that has been made and tha... [ Continue Reading ]
ἘΝ ΤΟΎΤΩΙ. This phrase, like διὰ τοῦτο (1 John 3:1) commonly looks back at what has just been stated. In doing or not doing sin lies the test. A man’s principles are invisible, but their results are visible: ‘By their fruits ye shall know them’ (Matthew 7:16-20). ΤᾺ ΤΈΚΝΑ Τ. ΔΙΑΒΌΛΟΥ. The expression... [ Continue Reading ]
11. [611][612] have ἐπαγγελία for ἈΓΓΕΛΊΑ ([613][614][615][616]). [611] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the monastery of S. Catherine on Mount Sinai, and now at Petersburg. All three Epistles. [612] 5th century. A palimpsest: the original writing has been partially rubbed out and... [ Continue Reading ]
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 definite article has been exaggerated into a demonstrative pronoun, ‘_that_ wicked one.’ The same fau... [ Continue Reading ]
13. After ἈΔΕΛΦΟΊ omit μου with [617][618][619][620] against [621][622]. [617] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the monastery of S. Catherine on Mount Sinai, and now at Petersburg. All three Epistles. [618] 5th century. Brought by Cyril Lucar, Patriarch of Constantinople, from Alexa... [ Continue Reading ]
13–24. LOVE AND HATE: LIFE AND DEATH ΜῊ ΘΑΥΜΆΖΕΤΕ. Comp. John 5:28, and contrast 1 John 3:7. The antagonism between the light and the darkness, between God and the evil one, between righteousness and unrighteousness, has never ceased from the time of the first sin (1 John 3:8) and of the first murd... [ Continue Reading ]
14. After ἈΓΑΠΩ͂Ν omit τὸν� with [623][624][625] against [626][627][628]. [623] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the monastery of S. Catherine on Mount Sinai, and now at Petersburg. All three Epistles. [624] 5th century. Brought by Cyril Lucar, Patriarch of Constantinople, from Alex... [ Continue Reading ]
15. [629][630][631] have ἑαυτῷ for ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ι or ΑὙΤΩ͂Ι ([632][633][634]). The reading remains doubtful. [629] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the monastery of S. Catherine on Mount Sinai, and now at Petersburg. All three Epistles. [630] 5th century. Brought by Cyril Lucar, Patriarch... [ Continue Reading ]
16. For τιθέναι ([635][636]) read ΘΕΙ͂ΝΑΙ ([637][638][639][640]). [635] 9th century. All three Epistles. [636] 9th century. All three Epistles. [637] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the monastery of S. Catherine on Mount Sinai, and now at Petersburg. All three Epistles. [638] 5th c... [ Continue Reading ]
ὋΣ Δ ̓ ἊΝ ἜΧΗ. The phrase is as wide in its sweep as πᾶς ὁ ἔχων: comp. 1 John 2:5. The δέ is full of meaning. ‘Not many of us are ever called upon to die for others: but smaller sacrifices are often demanded of us; and what if we fail to respond?’ _Si nondum es idoneus mori pro fratre, jam idoneus e... [ Continue Reading ]
18. After ΤΕΚΝΊΑ omit μου with [641][642][643][644] against [645][646]. Before ΓΛΏΣΣΗΙ insert τῇ with [647][648][649][650][651] against [652], and before ἜΡΓΩΙ insert ἘΝ with [653][654][655][656][657] against [658]. [641] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the monastery of S. Catherin... [ Continue Reading ]
19. For γινώσκομεν ([659][660]) read ΓΝΩΣΌΜΕΘΑ ([661][662][663][664]). [665][666], Syriac, and Vulgate omit ΚΑΊ before ἘΝ ΤΟΎΤΩΙ. [667]1[668], Peschito, and Thebaio read τὴν καρδίαν for ΤᾺΣ Κ. ([669][670]2[671][672][673]). [659] 9th century. All three Epistles. [660] 9th century. All three Epistles.... [ Continue Reading ]
ὍΤΙ ἘᾺΝ ΚΑΤΑΓΙΝΏΣΚΗΙ ἩΜΩ͂Ν. The Revisers follow Lachmann in reading ὅ τι ἐάν, a construction found Acts 3:23 and Galatians 5:10, and possibly Colossians 3:17. The clause is then attached to what precedes: _shall persuade our heart before Him_, WHEREINSOEVER _our heart condemn us_. But this is not pr... [ Continue Reading ]
21. With [674][675] omit ἡμῶν after ΚΑΡΔΊΑ. [676][677] omit ἩΜΩ͂Ν after ΚΑΤΑΓΙΝΏΣΚΗΙ. [674] 5th century. Brought by Cyril Lucar, Patriarch of Constantinople, from Alexandria, and afterwards presented by him to Charles I. in 1628. In the British Museum. All three Epistles. [675] 4th century. Brought... [ Continue Reading ]
22. For παρ ̓ αὐτοῦ ([678][679]) read ἈΠʼ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂ ([680][681][682][683]). [678] 9th century. All three Epistles. [679] 9th century. All three Epistles. [680] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the monastery of S. Catherine on Mount Sinai, and now at Petersburg. All three Epistles. [68... [ Continue Reading ]
23. For πιστεύσωμεν ([684][685][686]) we should perhaps read ΠΙΣΤΕΎΩΜΕΝ ([687][688][689]). [684] 4th century. Brought to Rome about 1460. It is entered in the earliest catalogue of the Vatican Library, 1475. All three Epistles. [685] 9th century. All three Epistles. [686] 9th century. All three Epis... [ Continue Reading ]
ΚΑῚ Ὁ ΤΗΡΩ͂Ν Τ. ἘΝΤ. This looks back to the same phrase in 1 John 3:22, not to καθὼς ἔδωκεν ἐντ. in 1 John 3:23, which is parenthetical. Therefore ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂ means God’s, not Christ’s. A.V. again spoils S. John’s telling repetition of a favourite word by translating μένει first ‘dwelleth’ and then ‘abi... [ Continue Reading ]