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If anyone comes to you, and doesn`t bring this teaching, don`t receive him into your house, and don`t welcome him,
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Protect, Don't Endorse
Commentators stress this command is not about withholding general kindness but refusing any action that could be seen as endorsing a false teacher. The goal is to protect the spiritual well-being of the church and family from destructive doctrine, not to be uncharitable to neighbors in need.
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2 John
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18th Century
Presbyterian
If there come any unto you. Any professed teacher of religion. There can be no doubt that she to whom this epistle was written was accusto…
If any one cometh and bringeth not (ε τις ερχετα κα ου φερε). Condition of first class with ε and two present indicatives (ερχεται…
19th Century
Anglican
St. John had recently had the opportunity of observing how some of the matron’s children proved their adherence to the truth by their daily conduct…
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The last warning extended to the reader is both the most objective and the most final. “If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If there come any unto you Under the character of a preacher;
and bring not this doctrine
The deceiver and his deceit are described: he brings some error concerning the person or office of the Lord Jesus. Such a one is a deceiver and an …
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