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23. For πιστεύσωμεν ([684][685][686]) we should perhaps read πιστεύωμεν ([687][688][689]).
[684] 4th century. Brought to Rome about 1460. It is entered in the earliest catalogue of the Vatican Library, 1475. All three Epistles.
[685] 9th century. All three Epistles.
[686] 9th century. All three Epistles.
[687] 4th century. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the monastery of S. Catherine on Mount Sinai, and now at Petersburg. All three Epistles.
[688] 5th century. Brought by Cyril Lucar, Patriarch of Constantinople, from Alexandria, and afterwards presented by him to Charles I. in 1628. In the British Museum. All three Epistles.
[689] 5th century. A palimpsest: the original writing has been partially rubbed out and the works of Ephraem the Syrian have been written over it. In the National Library at Paris. Part of the First and Third Epistles; 1Jn 1:1 to 1Jn 4:2; 3Jn 1:3-14. Of the whole N.T. the only Books entirely missing are 2 John and 2 Thessalonians.
Once more [690] almost invariably has the true text: in no case has it a reading which is certainly wrong.
[690] 4th century. Brought to Rome about 1460. It is entered in the earliest catalogue of the Vatican Library, 1475. All three Epistles.
In 1Jn 3:1-3 the Apostle states the present and future condition of the children of God. For the present they have both in name and fact a parentage that is Divine: but the world, which has not recognised their Parent, does not recognise them. Their future is not yet fully revealed: but they are to be like Him; and this thought inspires their strivings after holiness.