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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 John 2:10 - 2:10
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Abiding in love is abiding in the light; for the Gospel light not only illumines the understanding, but warms the heart into love.
none occasion of stumbling - In contrast to, “He that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.” “In him who loves there is neither blindness nor occasion of stumbling [to himself]: in him who does not love, there is both blindness and occasion of stumbling. He who hates his brother, is both a stumbling-block to himself, and stumbles against himself and everything within and without; he who loves has an unimpeded path” [Bengel]. John has in mind Jesus’ words, Joh 11:9, Joh 11:10. Alford well says, “The light and the darkness are within ourselves; admitted into us by the eye, whose singleness fills the whole body with light.”