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Deceivers (planoi). Late adjective (Diodorus, Josephus) meaning wandering, roving (1Ti 4:1). As a substantive in N.T. of Jesus (Mat 27:63), of Paul (2Co 6:8), and here. See the verb (tōn planontōn humās) in 1Jo 2:26 of the Gnostic deceivers as here and also of Jesus (Joh 7:12). Cf. 1Jo 1:8.
Are gone forth (exēlthan, alpha ending). Second aorist active indicative of exerchomai, perhaps an allusion to the crisis when they left the churches (1Jo 2:19, same form).
Even they that confess not (hoi mē homologountes). “The ones not confessing” (mē regular negative with the participle). The articular participle describes the deceivers (planoi).
That Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh (Iēsoun Christon erchomenon en sarki). “Jesus Christ coming in the flesh.” Present middle participle of erchomai treating the Incarnation as a continuing fact which the Docetic Gnostics flatly denied. In 1Jo 4:2 we have elēluthota (perfect active participle) in this same construction with homologeō, because there the reference is to the definite historical fact of the Incarnation. There is no allusion here to the second coming of Christ.
This (houtos). See 1Jo 2:18, 1Jo 2:22; 1Jo 5:6, 1Jo 5:20.
The deceiver and the antichrist (ho planos kai ho antichristos). Article with each word, as in Rev 1:17, to bring out sharply each separate phrase, though one individual is referred to. The one par excellence in popular expectation (1Jo 2:22), though many in reality (1Jo 2:18; 3Jo 1:7).