another man's. a foreigner's. Compare Acts 7:6 and Hebrews 11:9 ("strange "), and Matthew 17:25; Matthew 17:26 ("stranger "). Greek. allotrios (App-124.)
your own. Greek. humeteros. But, though all themodern critical texts (except WH and Rm) read it thus, yet the primitive text must have read hemeteros. ours, or our own; for it is the reading of "B "(the Vatican MS.) and, before this or any other Greek MS. extant, Origen (186-253), Tertullian (second cent.), read hemon --ours; while Theophylact (1077), and Euthymius (twelfth cent.), with. (the Vatican MS.) read hemeteros = our own, in contrast with "foreigners "in preceding clause. See note on 1 John 2:2. This makes true sense; otherwise it is unintelligible.