2 John 1:6,7

And this is love The principal proof of true love, first to God, and then to his people; that we walk after his commandments That we be obedient to his will in all things. This love is the great commandment, which ye have heard from the beginning Of our preaching; that ye should walk in it Should persevere in love. For many deceivers, &c. See on 1 John 4:1: as if he had said, Carefully keep what you have heard from the beginning; for many seducers are come; who confess not that Jesus Christ is come Or came, as ερχομενον (considered as the participle of the imperfect) may be rendered; for Jesus Christ was not on earth in the flesh when John wrote this; as the translation in our Bible, is come, imports. He had come in the flesh, but was gone. So that no translation of this clause, which represents Jesus Christ as then present, can be just. The apostle alludes to the rise of those heretics, who affirmed that Christ came only in appearance; and who, of course, denied his priestly, if not also his prophetic and kingly office. This Every one who does this, who does not acknowledge that Christ came in the flesh; is a deceiver A seducer from God; and antichrist An enemy to Christ.