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For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn`t come to the light, for fear that his works would be reproved.
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The Moral Root of Unbelief
Commentators unanimously agree that the primary reason people reject the light of Christ is not intellectual but moral. As Charles Spurgeon states, 'Christ is hated because sin is loved.' People who are attached to their wrongdoing naturally hate the gospel because it exposes their actions and troubles their conscience. This aversion is a deliberate choice to remain in the darkness of sin rather than face the convicting truth.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
That doeth evil. Every wicked man.
Hateth the light. This is true of all wicked men. They choose to practise their deeds o…
That doeth ill (ο φαυλα πρασσων). The word φαυλος means first worthless and then wicked (usually so in N.T.) and both senses occur…
19th Century
Anglican
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light.—In this and the next verse we have the explanation of the choice of darkn…
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Baptist
That light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hatet…
The difference between believers and unbelievers does not lie in the guilt or innocence of either; it lies in the different attitudes they take tow…
16th Century
Protestant
For whosoever doeth what is evil. The meaning is, that the light is hateful to them for no other reason than because they are wic…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For every one that does evil, hates the light Every man, the series of whose life and conversation is evil, hates Ch…
13th Century
Catholic
Above, the Lord assigned the coming down of the Son and the lifting up of the Son of Man as the cause of spiritual regeneration, and he e…
