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But I know you (alla egnōka humas). Perfect active indicative of ginōskō, “I have come to know and still know,” the knowledge of personal experience (Joh 2:24.).
The love o’ God (tēn agapēn tou theou). Objective genitive, “the love toward God.” See Luk 11:42 for this phrase in the same sense (only other instance in the Gospels, but common in 1John (1Jo 2:5; 1Jo 3:17; 1Jo 4:7, 1Jo 4:9; 1Jo 5:3) and in 2Th 3:5; 2Co 13:14; Rom 5:5. The sense of God’s love for man occurs in 1Jo 3:1; 1Jo 4:9, 1Jo 4:10, 1Jo 4:16; Joh 15:9. of Christ’s love for man. These rabbis did not love God and hence did not love Christ.