Matthew Poole Commentary - 1 John 2:1 - 2:1

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Matthew Poole Commentary - 1 John 2:1 - 2:1


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1 JOHN CHAPTER 2



1Jo_2:1,2 Christ is our advocate with the Father, and a

propitiation for the sins of the whole world.

1Jo_2:3-6 Rightly to know God is to keep his commandments,

1Jo_2:7-11 the chief of which is, to love one another.

1Jo_2:12-14 The apostle addresseth Christians of all ages severally,

1Jo_2:15-17 and warneth them against an inordinate love of this world,

1Jo_2:18,19 and against deceivers, who were many.

1Jo_2:20-28 He showeth the means they had of knowing the truth,

and of distinguishing false teachers; and pointeth

out their obligation to abide in the truth which they

had been taught,

1Jo_2:29 he that doeth righteousness is born of God.



He endeavours in this to steer them a middle course, that they might neither presume to sin, nor despair if they did; and bespeaks them with a compellation, importing both authority and love; well becoming him as then an aged person, an apostle, their teacher, and who was their most affectionate spiritual father. And lets them know, the first design of what he was now writing (had hitherto written, and was further to write) was: That they might to their uttermost avoid sinning at all: but adds, if, through human frailty, they did sin,



we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; implying our need of Christ for renewed as well as first pardon; and not of his death only, but continual intercession; and represents the advantages Christ hath for success in his interposing for us, in respect both of his relation to God as his Father, (which is put indefinitely,



the Father, that the consideration might not be excluded of his being our Father also), and his righteousness, by which he could not but be acceptable to him.