1Jn_2:18-27. Warning against the antichrists, whose presence shows that the last hour has come. Description of them, and exhortation to believers to continue in that which they have heard from the beginning, combined with the testimony that they have known the truth.
This section stands in closest connection with the preceding one; for, in the first place, the preceding exhortation is occasioned by the thought that it is
ἐσχάτη
ὥρα
, as is evidenced by the appearance of the
ἀντίχριστοι
; and, in the second place, the
ἀντίχριστοι
, of whom the apostle treats here, are, as it is put in chap. 1Jn_4:5 :
ἐκ
τοῦ
κόσμου
.