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I rejoice (echarēn). Second aorist passive of chairō as in 3Jo 1:3, “of a glad surprise” (D. Smith), as in Mar 14:11, over the discovery about the blessing of their godly home on these lads.
Greatly (lian). Only here and 3Jo 1:3 in John’s writings.
I have found (heurēka). Perfect active indicative of heuriskō as in Joh 1:41, our “eureka,” here with its usual force, a continued discovery. “He sits down at once and writes to Kyria. How glad she would be that her lads, far away in the great city, were true to their early faith” (David Smith).
Certain of thy children (ek tōn teknōn). No tinas as one would expect before ek, a not infrequent idiom in the N.T. (Joh 16:17).
Walking (peripatountas). Present active accusative supplementary participle agreeing with tinas understood. Probably members of the church off here in Ephesus.
In truth (en alētheiāi). As in 2Jo 1:1; 3Jo 1:4.
We received (elabomen). Second aorist active (possibly, though not certainly, literary plural) of lambanō. This very idiom (entolēn lambanō) in Joh 10:18; Act 17:15; Col 4:10. Perhaps the reference here is to 1Jo 2:7.; 1Jo 3:23.