“ These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. ”
These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you - Respecting their character, and in order to guard you against their arts. The word “seduce” means to lead astray; and it her...
(25) These [things] have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. (25) The same Spirit who endues the elect with the knowledge of the truth and sanctifies them, gives them the gift of per...
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...
seduce . lead astray, or cause to err.
26 These things have I written unto you The apostle excuses himself again for having admonished them who were well endued with knowledge and judgment. But he did this, that they might apply...
These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. These things have I written - Either meaning the whole epistle, or what is contained in the preceding verses, from the beginnin...
These things have I written, &c.— By these things some understand all that is said from 1 John 2:18 to this place; others understand this whole epistle. If some of the Christians to whom St...
These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. These things - ( 1 John 2:18-25 .) Have I written - resumed from 1 John 2:21 ; 1 John 2:14 . Seduce you - try t...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
These [things] have I written unto you ,.... The little children, who were most likely to be imposed upon by antichrists and deceivers: concerning them that seduce you . The Syriac, Arabic, and Et...
These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. Ver. 26. That seduce you ] That carry you into byways, highways to hell.
These things From 1 John 2:21 ; have I written unto you St. John, according to his custom, begins and ends with the same form, and having finished a kind of parenthesis, ( 1 John 2:21-26 ,) cont...
“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...
Concerning Antichrist. A. D. 80. 20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know al...
So much he thought requisite to be said, in respect of their danger by seducers, though their safety was principally to depend upon what he next mentions... See Poole on " 1 John 2:27 " .
Warning Against False Religion and False Teachers ( 1 John 2:18-29 ). Having warned against the world which is under the control of the Evil One and will stultify their faith, John now warns again...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES 1 John 2:24 .—Omit “therefore. “ Which ye have heard .—Concerning Christ, and Christ’s truth, on the authority of His apostles. Remain … continue—In both cases pre...
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 2:2 . 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...
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...
These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
1 John 3:7 ; 1 Timothy 4:1 ; 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 ; 2 John 1:7 ; 2 Peter 2:1-3 ; 2 Timothy 3:13 ; Acts 20:29 ; Acts 20:30 ; Colossians 2:18 ; Colossians 2:8 ; Ezekiel 13:10 ; Mark 13:22...
These things — From 1 John 2:21 . I have written to you — St. John, according to his custom, begins and ends with the same form, and having finished a kind of parenthesis, 1 John 2:20-26 , contin...