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Follow not; Mh mimou by following here he means imitation, i.e. the deformity of evil appearing in the practice of some, and the beauty of true goodness in others, (examples being given of both sorts, 3 John 1:9, and 3 John 1:12), he exhorts to decline the former, and imitate the other; and enforces the exhortation by the weightiest arguments. He that doeth good; a doer of good, one made up of kindness and benignity (as the contest draws the sense to that special kind of goodness); agayopoiwn and o kakopoiwn, signify doing well or ill, from a fixed, prevailing habit, 1 John 3:7,8. Is of God; is allied to heaven, born of God, his offspring. But he that doeth evil hath not seen God; an evil-doer, on the other hand, such a one as is a composition of spite, envy, and malice, is a mere stranger to him, hath not been, or known, or had to do with him.