...will also give in italics the expressions which appear to me to deserve particular attention. Verse 6. And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment (namely, that we love one another — see v. 5, and John xiv, 15-21.) That as ye have heard from the...

...walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee,...ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it."3 Again: " God, who at 1 John v. 19. 2 Johnv. 2fi, 27. .' '2 John 3—6. sundry times and in divers...

...from the Father. 5 And now Г beseech thee, lady, not asi though [ wrote a new commandment un- j to thee, but that which we had from the! beginning, that we love ons another. 6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That,...

...walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. 5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee,...had from the beginning, that we love one another. 6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have...

...congratulation similar to those which we have been considering, and on a similar occasion, he thus proceeds : " This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it. For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh....

...walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee,...That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should 7 False teachers soon sprung up. walk in it. ' For many de- Hence, all the counsel and encourceivers...

...walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. 5 And now I beseech thec, lady, f not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee,...had from the beginning, . that we love one another. AD90. a 1 Jno. 3. 18. 3 J no. 1 . b Jno. 8. 32. Ga. 2 5.14. Cot. 1.5. 2 Th. 2. 13. c I Ti. 1.2, 1 Or....

...received a commandment from the Father. 5. And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote 2 I. v. 1. a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another* St. Paul had said to the Philippians, " To write the same things to you, to me is not grievous, but...

...eommand'ment from the Fa'ther. 5 And now I beso'eeh thec, la'dy, not' as though I wro'te a new' eommand'ment un'to thee, but that' which we had' from the begin'ning, that we lov'e one anoth'er. 6 \na tjiis' is lov'e, that we wa'lk after his epmmand'ments. Tjiis' is the eommand'ment, That, as...

...beginning." And in his second Epistle to the elect lady, he says, speaking of the same commandment ; " That which we had from the beginning, that we love one another." Now according to this argument, what could John have meant, but that all those to whom he wrote existed,...