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1Jn_5:12 states the inference from the immediately preceding thought. If the ζωή is originally in the Son, then he who has the Son has with him also the ζωή . With ὁ ἔχων τὸν υἱόν , comp. chap. 1Jn_2:23. Changing and weakening the sense, Grotius puts for τὸν υἱόν : verba ilia quae Pater Filio mandavit; even ἔχει τὴν ζωήν he erroneously explains by: jus certum ad vitam aeternam. Whilst John in the first clause says simply τὸν υἱόν , in the second he adds τοῦ Θεοῦ ; on this Bengel remarks: habet versus duo cola; in priore non additur Dei, nam fideles norunt Filium; in altero additur, ut demum sciant fideles, quanti sit, non habere.