Notes on Second
John
From the Original 1599 Geneva Bible
Notes
2Jo 1:1
1:1 The elder unto the {a} elect {b}
lady and her children, {1} whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also
all they that have known the truth;
(a) This is not a proper name, but
is to be taken as it sounds that is to say, the worthy and noble
lady.
(b) Excellent and honourable woman.
(1) The bond of Christian
union is the true and constant profession of the truth.
2Jo 1:3
1:3 Grace be with you, mercy, [and]
peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the
Father, in
(c) truth and love.
(c) With true knowledge which always
has love united with it, and following it.
2Jo 1:4
1:4 {2} I rejoiced greatly that I found
of thy children walking in {d} truth, as we have received a commandment from
the Father.
(2) This true profession consists
both in love towards one another which the Lord has commanded, and also
especially in wholesome and sound doctrine, which also is delivered to us:
for the commandment of God is a sound and sure foundation both of the rule
of conduct and of doctrine, and these cannot be separated from one
another,
(d) According as the truth directs them.
2Jo 1:7
1:7 {3} 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.
(3) Antichrists fighting against the
person and office of Christ had already crept into the Church, in the time
of the apostles.
2Jo 1:8
1:8 {4} {e} Look to yourselves, that we
lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full
reward.
(4) He that makes shipwreck of
doctrine, loses all.
(e) Beware, and take good heed.
2Jo 1:10
1:10 {5} If there come any unto you,
and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into [your] house, neither bid
him God speed:
(5) We should have nothing to do
with those who defend perverse doctrine.
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