For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
As love and truth go hand in hand (2 John 1:3-4), he gives warning against teachers of untruth.
For - reason why he dwelt on truth, and on love, which manifests itself in keeping God's commandments (2 John 1:6).
Many - (1 John 2:18; 1 John 4:1.)
Are entered. B; but 'Aleph (') A, Vulgate, Irenaeus, 207, read х exeelthan (G1831)], 'are gone forth;' namely, from us.
Confess not that Jesus ... in the flesh - the token of Antichrist.
Is come, х erchomenon (G2064)] - 'coming.' He who denies (as these deceivers did) Christ's coming in the flesh, denies the possibility of the incarnation; he who denies that He has come, denies its actuality (Neander). I think 'coming' implies both the first and the second advent of Christ. He is often elsewhere called the Coming One х ho (G3588) erchomenos (G2064)] (Matthew 11:3; Hebrews 10:37). The denial of the reality of His incarnation, at His first coming, and of His personal advent again, constitutes Antichrist. 'The world turns away from Christ, busily intent upon its own husks; but to OPPOSE Christ is of the leaven of Satan' (Bengel).
This is a х ho (G3588)] - 'This (such a one as described) is the deceiver and the Antichrist ' The many who This is a, х ho (G3588)] - 'This (such a one as described) is the deceiver and the Antichrist.' The many who in a degree fulfill the character, forerun the final Antichrist, who shall concentrate in himself all the features of previous anti-Christian systems.