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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 John 2:5 - 2:5
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Not merely repeating the proposition, 1Jo 2:3, or asserting the merely opposite alternative to 1Jo 2:4, but expanding the “know Him” of 1Jo 2:3, into “in Him, verily (not as a matter of vain boasting) is the love of (that is towards) God perfected,” and “we are in Him.” Love here answers to knowledge in 1Jo 2:3. In proportion as we love God, in that same proportion we know Him, and vice versa, until our love and knowledge shall attain their full maturity of perfection.
his word - His word is one (see on 1Jo 1:5), and comprises His “commandments,” which are many (1Jo 2:3).
hereby - in our progressing towards this ideal of perfected love and obedience. There is a gradation: 1Jo 2:3, “know Him”; 1Jo 2:5, “we are in Him”; 1Jo 2:6, “abideth in Him”; respectively, knowledge, fellowship, abiding constancy. [Bengel].