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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 John 4:9 - 4:9
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toward us - Greek, “in our case.”
sent - Greek, “hath sent.”
into the world - a proof against Socinians, that the Son existed before He was “sent into the world.” Otherwise, too, He could not have been our life (1Jo 4:9), our “propitiation” (1Jo 4:10), or our “Savior” (1Jo 4:14). It is the grand proof of God’s love, His having sent “His only-begotten Son, that we might live through Him,” who is the Life, and who has redeemed our forfeited life; and it is also the grand motive to our mutual love.