Matthew Poole Commentary - 1 John 4:1 - 4:1
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Matthew Poole Commentary - 1 John 4:1 - 4:1
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1 JOHN CHAPTER 4
1Jo_4:1-6 The apostle warneth to try by certain rules the
spirits that pretend to come from God.
1Jo_4:7-21 He presseth the obligation of mutual love upon
Christians from the example and commandment of God.
Believe not every spirit; i.e. not every one
pretending to inspiration, or a revelation; spirit, whether good
or bad, being put for the person acted thereby.
But try the spirits; there being a judgment of discretion or discerning,
common to Christians, de jure, and which they ought to endeavour
for and to use upon such occasions, Act_17:11 Phi_1:9,10 1Th_5:21;
and the attainment and exercise whereof is, in reference to the great
essentials of religion, more facile and sure: as when heretofore among
the Jews, any should attempt the drawing them off from the true God,
as Deu_13:1,2; and so when with Christians it should be
endeavoured to tempt them away from Christ, as the
false prophets
or teachers did, now gone out into the world.