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#1:2 report (b-15)
#1:3 report (b-9)
 'Bring back the report of,' from something we have learnt.

#1:2 which (c-21)
 _Hostis_: as Matt. 7.24. The character, not merely the
 statement of the fact, 'which was such a one as that.'

#1:3 fellowship (d-17)
#1:3 fellowship (d-22)
 _Koinonia_: see Heb. 2.14.

#1:6 say (e-3)
#1:7 walk (e-4)
#1:8 say (e-3)
#1:9 confess (e-3)
#1:10 say (e-3)
 In all these cases the verb is in the subjunctive, and puts
 the case of so doing. I should have translated them 'if we
 should say,' &c., but that it is the case in ver. 9 also, where
 it cannot be done.

#1:7 all (f-31)
#1:9 all (f-20)
 Or 'every.'

#2:1 children, (g-2)
 _Teknia_ (a diminutive). It is a term of parental affection.
 It applies to Christians irrespective of growth. Used in vers.
 12.28; chs. 3.7,18; 4.4; 5.21; John 13.33; Gal. 4.19

#2:1 patron (h-24)
 _Parakletos_, as 'comforter,' John 14.16,26; 15.26; 16.7.
 Christ manages all our affairs for us above; the Holy Spirit
 below. I use 'patron' in the sense rather of the Roman patron,
 who maintained the interests of his clients in every way. So
 Christ on high; the Spirit here for saints.

#2:3 know (a-7)
#2:13 known (a-38)
#2:14 known (a-10)
 _Ginosko_: and so throughout chapter, except vers.
 11,20,21,29 (first), _oida_. Perfect tense here: 'have come to
 know him, and continue so to do;' and so vers. 4,13,14.

#2:5 keeps (b-3)
 A subjunctive, or 'shall keep.'

#2:7 had (c-16)
 Or 'ye had.'

#2:9 the (d-15)
 'The darkness.' Though a little harsh in these cases in
 English, 'the' ought to be retained, because it is not simply a
 state -- a man being in darkness; but a specific darkness, the
 ignorance and non-revelation of God is spoken of: only it is
 abstract, and so absolute. 'The darkness' is the natural
 condition of sinful man without God, who is light; the creature
 without God. Hence in John 1.5 'the light appears in darkness,
 and the darkness apprehended it not.' 'Is passing' (ver. 8) is
 abstract. 'The true light shines:' that is absolute; it shines,
 whether seen or not. But though some had received the light, he
 could not say the darkness was all gone, for it was not, but
 only with some who 'were once darkness, but now light in the
 Lord.' Thus it was not as in the gospel, when Christ was upon
 earth; for then the darkness apprehended not the light shining
 in darkness. It was putting the light out. As long as he was in
 the world, he was the light of the world. Now it was not so:
 there was a passing away of the darkness.

#2:13 known (e-9)
#2:13 overcome (e-25)
#2:14 overcome (e-39)
 The perfect tense: the state produced continues.

#2:13 children, (f-34)
 _Paidion_ (diminutive); it has reference to growth. It stands
 in contrast to 'young men' and 'fathers.'

#2:17 does (g-12)
 See Note e at ch. 3.10.

#2:18 children, (f-2)
 _Paidion_ (diminutive); it has reference to growth. It stands
 in contrast to 'young men' and 'fathers.'

#2:18 hour, (a-7)
 John uses 'hour' continually in the sense of 'time,' as John
 5.35, 'a season.' It is properly a given point of time. With
 John it is constantly a period characterized by one thing, and
 hence looked at as only one time. As we say 'the hour of
 Napoleon's greatness.'

#2:18 come (b-21)
 'There have come' (_ginomai_: John 1.17) is not from the same
 word as 'comes' in this verse. It is what did not exist before,
 but begins or becomes. 'There have come' I believe nearest the
 sense. The perfect tense conveys the thought that they still
 exist.

#2:27 *yourselves*, (c-2)
 Personal pronouns, used as the subject of a verb, are
 normally emphatic in Greek, but in John their use is almost
 universal. Still, there is some distinctive emphasis here, as
 also ver. 24, where 'you' seems in contrast with 'those that
 denied the Son.'

#2:28 if (d-8)
 'If ' (so 3John 10) sets out what supposes and depends on the
 fact, not referring to time. Here, if at any moment it
 happened, we should be so and so: if that, this might be too.

#2:29 know (e-3)
 Here _eidete_ from _oida_, conscious knowledge; then
 _ginoskete_ from _ginosko_, knowledge of something from
 without, from witness to us.

#2:29 know (f-8)
 Or 'ye know.'

#3:1 children (g-16)
 _Teknon_ (not a diminutive), as vers. 2,10; ch. 5.2; 2John
 1,4,13; 3John 4.

#3:2 manifested; (h-17)
 Actual manifestation is here meant; not merely a revelation
 for faith.

#3:2 know (i-19)
 _Oida_, as ch. 2.29.

#3:2 it (k-22)
 Or 'he.'

#3:3 him (l-9)
 Him who is to be manifested.

#3:4 lawlessness. (m-12)
 To translate this 'sin is the transgression of the law,' as
 in A.V., is wrong, and gives a false definition of sin, for sin
 was in the world, and death as a consequence, before the giving
 of _the_ law: see Rom. 5.13; 7.13. The Greek reads 'sin is
 lawlessness,' that is, the absence of the _principle_ of law
 (not _the_ law), or, in other words, of the control of God over
 the soul. I ought to have no will of my own, but be in
 obedience. The statement is reciprocal, and may be read
 'lawlessness is sin.'

#3:5 know (a-3)
#3:14 know (a-2)
#3:15 know (a-12)
 _Oida_, as ch. 2.29.

#3:6  (b-1)
#3:6 whoever (b-8)
 Lit. 'every one that.'

#3:6 known (c-15)
 _Ginosko_: perfect tense; implying here the continuously
 present state of not seeing or knowing.

#3:9  (d-1)
 Or 'no one that has been begotten (or 'is born') of God
 practises:' see vers. 6,10; ch. 2.29.

#3:10 practise (e-18)
#3:22 practise (e-15)
 _Poieo_, as ch. 1.6; 2.17 (does), 29; 3.4,7,8,9,22: see Rom.
 1.32.

#3:14 [his] (f-21)
 Lit. 'the.'

#3:16 known (g-4)
 Perfect tense, as ch. 2.3.

#3:17 substance, (h-7)
 'What is necessary to life,' 'subsistence.'

#3:19 persuade (i-14)
 Or 'assure.'

#3:20 us, (k-6)
 Subjunctive. 'That,' ver. 20, refers to 'hereby' in ver. 19.
 It is showing what tests 'in truth.' The repetition of 'that'
 is nothing uncommon. It is found in Eph. 2.11,12. What 'hereby'
 refers to very commonly follows in John, as in vers. 16,24, and
 ch. 4.17, and elsewhere, frequently indeed with 'that.' 'God
 being greater' is evidently a testing, searching thing.

#3:21 not, (l-7)
 Subjunctive, as ver. 20, and ch. 1.6,7.

#4:2 know (a-3)
 _Ginosko_: and so throughout chapter: see 1Cor. 8.1.

#4:7 begotten (b-19)
#5:1 begotten (b-11)
#5:1 begotten (b-28)
#5:4 begotten (b-6)
 Or 'is born.' as ch. 3.9.

#4:9 us (c-4)
 'In our case,' in respect of us. The idea of the love of God
 remains absolute: only it has been shown 'as respects us in
 this,' &c.

#4:12 us. (d-24)
#4:16 to (d-13)
 _En_, 'of which we are the objects;' but it is more than
 'towards.'

#5:6 the (a-34)
 Or 'truth:' the proposition is reciprocal, as ch. 3.4, John
 1.4. And 'truth' amounts only to true; whereas 'the truth' is
 the whole thing.

#5:7 three: (b-7)
 What is omitted here has no real manuscript authority.

#5:8 agree (c-12)
 'Are to one point or purpose' -- to one thing in their
 testimony. It is more than 'agree.'

#5:10 made (d-21)
 _Poieo_, as 'make,' ch. 1.10: see Note k, Rom. 1.32.

#5:13 know (e-11)
 _Oida_: 'conscious knowledge;' so vers. 15,18,19,20, first:
 _ginosko_, vers. 2.20, second.

#5:18 one (f-5)
 As 'whoever,' ch. 3.6.

#5:18 begotten (g-17)
 Or 'is born,' as chs. 3.9; 4.7; 5.1,4,

#5:19 wicked (h-15)
 Or 'in wickedness.' This word, which may mean both, is also
 used for 'the wicked one,' as ch. 3.12.