I have not written (ουκ εγραψα). Not epistolary aorist (2:14), but a reference to what he has just said.

And becaus…

I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth. You are not to regard my writing to you in this earnest manner as any evidence …

[8] THE MANIFESTATIONS OF DARKNESS (1 John 2:18–28).

I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

Lest there be any doubt among the faithful as to John’s perception of their understanding and orthodoxy, he says that he has not written because th…

And that no lie is of the truth. He concedes to them a judgment by which they could distinguish truth from falsehood. For this is not the …

I have not written unto you
Either this epistle, or rather what particularly here regards those apostates from the t…

Every person is an antichrist who denies the Person, or any of the offices of Christ; and in denying the Son, they deny the Father also, and have n…