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All that (pān to). Collective use of the neuter singular as in 1Jo 5:4, like pān ho in Joh 6:37, Joh 6:39. Three examples, not necessarily covering all sins, are given in the nominative in apposition with pān to. “The lust of the flesh” (hē epithumia tēs sarkos, subjective genitive, lust felt by the flesh) may be illustrated by Mar 4:19; Gal 5:17. So the genitive with hē epithumia tōn ophthalmōn (the lust of the eyes) is subjective, lust with the eyes as organs as shown by Jesus in Mat 5:28. The use of the “movies” today for gain by lustful exhibitions is a case in point. For alazoneia see note on Jam 4:16, the only other N.T. example. Alazōn (a boaster) occurs in Rom 1:30; 2Ti 3:2. Bios (life) as in 1Jo 3:17 is the external aspect (Luk 8:14), not the inward principle (zōē). David Smith thinks that, as in the case of Eve (Gen 3:1-6) and the temptations of Jesus (Mat 4:1-11), these three sins include all possible sins. But they are all “of the world” (ek tou kosmou) in origin, in no sense “of the Father” (ek tou patros). The problem for the believer is always how to be in the world and yet not of it (Joh 17:11, Joh 17:14.).