Herein is love -Herein" again refers to what follows: Love in Its full perfection is seen, not in man's love to God, but in His to man, which reached a climax in His sending His Son to save us from our sins. The superiority of God's love does not lie merely in the fact of its being Divine. It is first in order of time and therefore necessarily spontaneous: ours is at best only love in return for love. His love is absolutely disinterested; ours cannot easily be so. Comp. Titus 3:4. -For propitiation" and -for our sins" see on 1 John 2:2. -To be the propitiation" is literally -as a propitiation"; it is parallel to -that we might live through Him" in the previous verse; but at the same time is an expansion of it. It states the manner in which life is won for us.

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