Message (αγγελια). In N.T. only here and 1:5, but επαγγελια (promise) fifty-one times.

From the beginning …

For this is the message. The marginal reading is commandment. In the received text, this is aggelia—a message brough…

BROTHERLY LOVE THE NECESSARY FLOWER OF THE DIVINE LOVE IN THE DIVINE BIRTH (1 John 3:11–18).—In 1 John 2:10, St. Joh…

For his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the de…

The admonition that “we should love one another” is highlighted by the return to the critical formula, “This is the message you heard from the begi…

For this is the message
Sent from God by Christ, or what he in his ministry declared, and is the commandment which w…

We should love the Lord Jesus, value his love, and therefore love all our brothers and sisters in Christ. This love is the special fruit of our fai…