1 João 2
Didymus the Blind · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
1 João 2:3
Often in the Scriptures the word know means not just being aware of something but having personal experience of it. Jesus did not know sin, not because he was unaware of what it is but because he never committed it himself. For although he is like us in every other way, he never sinned. Given this meaning of the word know, it is clear that anyone who says that he knows God must also keep his commandments, for the two things go together. — COMMENTARY ON 1 JOHN
1 João 2:5
The person who really loves God keeps his commandments and by so doing realizes that he knows the love of God. Our obedience results in his love. — COMMENTARY ON 1 JOHN
1 João 2:7
Some people were apparently objecting that the Evangelist's teaching was a new thing, and so he had to insist that this was not so. — COMMENTARY ON 1 JOHN
1 João 2:15
Since the nature of friendship with God is such that if anyone loves this world he is an enemy of God, it follows that if someone wants to be a friend of God and dwell in God's love, he must turn away from love of the world and the things which are in the world. — COMMENTARY ON 1 JOHN
1 João 2:18
These things are not said of all who teach false doctrine but only of those who join a false sect after they have heard the truth. It is because they were once Christians that they are now called antichrists. — COMMENTARY ON 1 JOHN