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We know
Emphatic; we as distinguished from the world.
Have passed (μεατβεβήκαμεν)
Lit., have passed over.
From death (ἐκ τοῦ θανάτου)
Lit., out of the death. The article marks it as one of the two spheres in which men must be; death or life. The death, the life, present one of those sharp oppositions which are characteristic of the Epistle; as love, hatred; darkness, light; truth, a lie. Ὁ θάνατος the death, occurs in John's Epistles only here and in the next clause. In the Gospel, only Joh 5:24. Personified in Rev 1:18; Rev 6:8; Rev 9:6; Rev 20:13.
Unto life (εἰς τὴν ζωήν)
Rev., better, into. Compare enter into the life, Mat 28:8; Mat 19:17.
Because
The sign of having passed into life; not the ground.
We love the brethren (ἀγαπῶμεν του,ς ἀδελφούς)
The only occurrence of the phrase. Elsewhere, love one another, or love his brother. See on 1Jo 2:9.
His brother
Omit.