1 John 2:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. ”

1 John 2:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Little children - See 1 John 2:1 . It is the last time - The closing period or dispensation; that dispensation in which the affairs of the world are ultimately to be wound up. The apostle do...
1 John 2:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(16) (n) Little children, (17) it is the last time: (18) and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. (16) Now, he...
1 John 2:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Antichrists and their Teaching. Here John deals with the false teachers, who embody the spirit of Antichrist and betoken by their appearance the speedy end of the world and the return of Christ...
1 John 2:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

last time . last hour. Compare Acts 2:17 . have . Omit. antichrist . Compare John 5:43 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-9 . shall come . cometh. are there . have arisen. whereby . whence.
1 John 2:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

18 It is the last time, or hour. He confirms the faithful against offenses by which they might have been disturbed. Already many sects had risen up, which rent the unity of faith and caused...
1 John 2:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. Little children, it is the last t...
1 John 2:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Little children, it is the last time— If these words are to be connected withthecontext,thenwe may consider them either as connected with the immediately preceding verses, and as containing one rea...
1 John 2:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. Little children - in age....
1 John 2:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 tra...
1 John 2:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(8) THE MANIFESTATIONS OF DARKNESS ( 1 John 2:18-28 ). ( a ) Signs whereby they should know the forerunners of the last time ( 1 John 2:18-23 ). ( b ) Exhortation to continue in the light ( 1...
1 John 2:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Loyalty to Truth 1 John 2:18-29 The Holy One is surely the risen Savior, who has passed into the heavens, whence He bestows the Holy Spirit as a sacred chrism on meek and trustful souls. We can...
1 John 2:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 lig...
1 John 2:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. (19) They went out from us, but t...
1 John 2:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Little children, it is the last time ,.... Or hour; not of the Jewish civil and church state, for that had been at an end for some time; this epistle was written some years after the destruction of...
1 John 2:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. Ver. 18. Little children ] Ch...
1 John 2:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Little , or young, children The former caution against the love of the world belongs chiefly to old experienced Christians, or those who have attained some considerable knowledge and experience in...
1 John 2:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

“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...
1 John 2:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Concerning Antichrist. A. D. 80. 18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have hea...
1 John 2:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The last time; the time here referred to seems to be the destruction of Jerusalem, and the finishing of the Jewish state, both civil and ecclesiastical. In the Greek, the last hour, the approaching...
1 John 2:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Little children, it is the last hour, and as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now have there arisen many antichrists, by which we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but t...
1 John 2:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES 1 John 2:18 . Last time .—R.V. “last hour”; probably it should be “ a last hour.” The period after Christ’s coming in the flesh, however long it may prove to be, i...
1 John 2:18 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 John 2:18 The Dispensations. Consider the leading dispensations under which mankind has been placed. I. A single arbitrary restriction, issued merely as a test of obedience, was the first of t...
1 John 2:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 John 2:1-4 . 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 fo...
1 John 2:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
1 John 2:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 c...
1 John 2:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A warning against anti-Christian teaching:
1 John 2:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 2:1 ; 1 John 2:22 ; 1 John 4:3 ; 1 Peter 1:20 ; 1 Peter 1:5 ; 1 Timothy 4:1 ; 1 Timothy 4:1-3 ; 2 John 1:7 ; 2 Peter 2:1 ; 2 Peter 3:3 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12 ; 2 Timothy 3:1 ; 2...
1 John 2:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

My little children, it is the last time — The last dispensation of grace, that which is to continue to the end of time, is begun. Ye have heard that antichrist cometh — Under the term antichrist, o...

1 John 2:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 John 2:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 John 2:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 John 2:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 John 2:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 John 2:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 John 2:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 John 2:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 John 2:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 John 2:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 John 2:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 John 2:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 John 2:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 2:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 John 2:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 John 2:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 John 2:18 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 John 2:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 John 2:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 2:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 John 2:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 John 2:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 2:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes