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Fathers (pateres). Those mature believers with long and rich experience (egnōkate, ye have come to know and still know).
Him which is from the beginning (ton ap' archēs). See 1Jo 1:1 as explaining this crisp description of the Word of life (cf. John 1:1-18).
Young men (neaniskoi). The younger element in contrast to the fathers, full of vigor and conflict and victory.
Ye have overcome the evil one (nenikēkate ton ponēron). Perfect active indicative of nikaō, a permanent victory after conflict. The masculine article ton shows that the prince of darkness is the one defeated in this struggle, the devil plain in 1Jo 3:8, 1Jo 3:10 (Joh 8:44; Joh 13:2).