Robertson Word Pictures - 2 John 1:1 - 1:1

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And her children (kai tois teknois autēs). As with eklektē kuria, so here tekna may be understood either literally as in 1Ti 3:4, or spiritually, as in Gal 4:19, Gal 4:25; 1Ti 1:2. For the spiritual sense in teknia see 1Jo 2:1, 1Jo 2:12.

Whom (hous). Masculine accusative plural, though teknois is neuter plural (dative), construction according to sense, not according to grammatical gender, “embracing the mother and the children of both sexes” (Vincent). See thus hous in Gal 4:19.

I (Egō). Though ho presbuteros is third person, he passes at once after the Greek idiom to the first and there is also special emphasis here in the use of agapō with the addition of en alētheiāi (in truth, in the highest sphere, as in Joh 17:19; 3Jo 1:1) and ouk egō monos (not I only, “not I alone”). Brooke argues that this language is unsuitable if to a single family and not to a church. But Paul employs this very phrase in sending greetings to Prisca and Aquila (Rom 16:4).

That know (hoi egnōkotes). Perfect active articular participle of ginōskō, “those that have come to know and still know.”