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Endurance as Proof
Commentators overwhelmingly agree that this verse teaches that genuine faith perseveres. Those who permanently abandon the faith and the church community reveal they were never truly 'of us' in spirit. Their departure is not a sign that a true Christian can lose salvation, but rather proof they were never genuinely saved in the first place.
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1 John
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Albert Barnes
On 1 John 2:19
18th Century
Theologian
They went out from us. From the church. That is, they had once been professed followers of the Savior, though their apostasy showed that t…
AT Robertson
On 1 John 2:19
From us (εξ ημων)
--of us (εξ ημων). The same idiom, εξ and the ablative case (ημων), but in different sen…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 John 2:18–28
19th Century
Bishop
[8] THE MANIFESTATIONS OF DARKNESS (1 John 2:18–28).
[a] Signs by which they should know the forerunners of the las…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 John 2:18–20
19th Century
Preacher
Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know tha…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 John 2:19
The departure of the opponents may have had a greater effect on the congregation than the reason for it. The early church obviously had severe deba…
John Calvin
On 1 John 2:19
16th Century
Theologian
They went out from us. He anticipates another objection: that the Church seemed to have produced these pests and to have cherished them fo…
John Gill
On 1 John 2:19
17th Century
Pastor
They went out from us
Which intends not the persons that went down from Judea to Antioch, (Acts 15:1[Ref…
Matthew Henry
On 1 John 2:18–23
17th Century
Minister
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…