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An Encouraging Reminder
Commentators emphasize that John is not writing to his readers as if they are ignorant or lacking. Instead, he writes precisely because they already know the truth. His letter is an encouragement, affirming their faith and building upon the knowledge they possess to strengthen them against false teachings.
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Albert Barnes
On 1 John 2:21
18th Century
Theologian
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 …
AT Robertson
On 1 John 2:21
I have not written (ουκ εγραψα). Not epistolary aorist (2:14), but a reference to what he has just said.
And becaus…
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 2:21–25
19th Century
Preacher
I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar but he tha…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 John 2:21
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…
John Calvin
On 1 John 2:21
16th Century
Theologian
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 …
John Gill
On 1 John 2:21
17th Century
Pastor
I have not written unto you
Either this epistle, or rather what particularly here regards those apostates from the t…
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…