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Overcometh (νικᾷ)
See on 1Jo 2:13.
The victory (ἡ νίκη)
Only here in the New Testament.
That overcometh (ἡ νικήσασα)
The aorist tense, overcame. On the cumulative form of expression, the victory, that which overcame, see on 1Jo 4:9. The aorist is to be held here to its strict sense. The victory over the world was, potentially, won when we believed in Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God. We overcome the world by being brought into union with Christ. On becoming as He is (1Jo 3:17) we become partakers of His victory (Joh 16:33). “Greater is He that is in you than He that is in the world” (1Jo 4:4).
Our faith (πίστις ἡμῶν)
Πίστις faith, only here in John's Epistles and not in the Gospel. Our faith is embraced in the confession that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. On the question of the subjective and objective use of the faith, see on Act 6:7.