We feel that we look on one who has seen Christ, and say-"We shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is." https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/mpc/1-john-2.html. Let that real truth burst upon you. Go to. There is a hell upon earth for many of us who, having set our affections upon some creatural object, and having had that withdrawn from us, are ready to say, ‘They have taken away my gods! ITS SPHERE. Or suppose that you are a religious man, cultivating a religious character, and seeking to “make your calling and election sure.” You have read your Bible, you have uttered prayers, you have helped in Christian labour. A primary pronoun of the first person I. See the rest of the verse in Romans 15:3, and other parts of the Psa. Surely this cannot but be most offensive to the heart-searching God. BibliographyBeza, Theodore. John 2:17. "Commentary on 1 John 2:17".

And the world is passing away, and the lust of it ( αὐτοῦ is subjective again: not as Lücke, Neander, Sander, objective, “the lust after it,” but as in 1 John 2:16, which see on the construction: ἡ ἐπιθ. And if two years later He found that the evil had returned, would He not be certain to drive it out once more? Is the world purer and more elevated? There may be stages of advancement and varieties of experience, a temporary break, perhaps, in the outer continuity of your thread of life, between the soul’s quitting the body to be with Christ where now He is and its receiving the body anew at His coming hither again. 1983-1999. God often brings it to our minds by some great and singular occurrence: and then we see a beauty and importance in it which we never saw before. "E.W. Chap. Here, therefore, is the great alternative between "loving the world and its lust" and "doing the will of God." "Commentary on John 2:17". You have cast in your lot with a cause which does not pass away, but abideth for ever; and a leader who does not pass away, but abideth for ever,—"the same yesterday, and today, and for ever." Rather over against the fleeting world he puts the abiding man who does the will of God. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/egt/1-john-2.html. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cal/1-john-2.html. He reminds them of the wisdom and strength involved in their Christian life. BibliographyTrapp, John. Our interest in the holiness of the Church should be all aflame with sacred zeal. "We should not miss the way this incident fits in with John"s aim of showing Jesus to be the Messiah. The Apostles themselves forgat many things which were spoken to them by our Lord, till the Holy Spirit brought them to their remembrance. The child was taught to say by heart large portions of the Law and Psalms and Prophets, and they formed the very texture of the mind, ready to pass into conscious thought whenever occasion suggested. I. We might have expected that John’s antithesis to the world that passeth would have been the God that abides. Viewing God’s house as including the believing remnants of Adam’s descendants, we see Him entering on His course as the sun enters on his march in the firmament. A primary verb; to 'grave', especially to write; figuratively, to describe. Even sorrow itself is enjoyable. John Trapp Complete Commentary. }, Some Used by Permission. It is spasmodic and interrupted. "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible". "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". His disciples—Only, as yet, the five from Bethsaida. If met with in the pages of a book, and questions were asked, no answer was to be given.

Wickedness should be rebuked. That is the will of God which you are to do. All that human speech can say is summed up in four words, the truest, the deepest, the saddest, and the most expressive, that ever fell from any mortal pen. The words were true of the inner burning which consumed the prophet-priest. John 12:16 [His triumphant entry into Jerusalem], “These things understood not His disciples at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of Him.” Through knowledge of our nation’s history in the past, through admiration of her greatness, through love of her scenery, through the subtle traditionary feelings which have been sent down in our blood--through these, and through a crowd of desires and enjoyments and sorrows which are shared by us all as Englishmen, and through a crowd of hopes for the future of our country, there grows up before us an ideal image of our nation.