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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 John 2:28 - 2:28
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little children - Greek, “little sons,” as in 1Jo 2:12; believers of every stage and age.
abide in him - Christ. John repeats his monition with a loving appellation, as a father addressing dear children.
when - literally, “if”; the uncertainty is not as to the fact, but the time.
appear - Greek, “be manifested.”
we - both writer and readers.
ashamed before him - literally, “from Him”; shrink back from Him ashamed. Contrast “boldness in the day of judgment,” 1Jo 4:17; compare 1Jo 3:21; 1Jo 5:14. In the Apocalypse (written, therefore, Bengel thinks, subsequently), Christ’s coming is represented as put off to a greater distance.