1 John 2:2

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 2:1-29

The Advocacy of Christ and the Obligations of Believers1. My little children] The diminutive implies the fatherly care which the aged Apostle felt for his disciples. Advocate] The word thus translated is used by St. John alone of the NT. writers. Elsewhere (John 14:16, John 14:25; John 15:26; John 16:7) it is rendered ’Comforter.’ Literally it means one who is called to the side of another for counsel and help. The rendering ’Advocate’ suits the passages in the Gospel (see RM in loco). The Son... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 John 2:1-2

II.(4) The third idea that arises from the great fact that God is Light has already been suggested (1 John 1:7), but now takes its distinct place in the series. It is the doctrine of Reconciliation and Redemption. St. John does not wish them to contemplate with complacency the probability of sinning; but to remember gratefully, in spite of falls, that the Author and Restorer of Light has provided a remedy both for the offence before God, and for its effect on themselves. First comes the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 1 John 2:1-29

1 John 2:1 'I feel, when I have sinned, an immediate reluctance to go to Christ,' says McCheyne. 'I am ashamed to go. I feel as if it would do no good to go as if it were making Christ a minister of sin, to go straight from the swine-trough to the best robe and a thousand other excuses; but I am persuaded they are all lies, direct from hell. John argues the opposite way: "If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father". Jeremiah 3:1 , and a thousand other Scriptures, are against it. I am... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 1 John 2:1-2

Chapter 7EXTENT OF THE ATONEMENT1 John 2:1-2Of the Incarnation of the Word, of the whole previous strain of solemn oracular annunciation, there are two great objects. Rightly understood, it at once stimulates and soothes; it supplies inducements to holiness, and yet quiets the accusing heart.(1) It urges to a pervading holiness in each recurring circumstance of life. "That ye may not sin" is the bold universal language of the morality of God. Men only understand moral teaching when it comes... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 1 John 2:2

Chapter 8MISSIONARY APPLICATION OF THE EXTENT OF THE ATONEMENT1 John 2:2LET us now consider the universal and ineradicable wants of man.Such a consideration is substantially unaffected by speculation as to the theory of man’s origin. Whether the first men are to be looked for by the banks of some icy river feebly shaping their arrowheads of flint, or in godlike and glorious progenitors beside the streams of Eden; whether our ancestors were the result of an inconceivably ancient evolution, or... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 1 John 2:1-17

II. LIGHT AND DARKNESS AND THE TESTS CHAPTERS 1:5-2:17 1. God is light; walking in darkness and in light (1 John 1:5-7 ) 2. What the light manifests (1 John 1:8-10 ) 3. The advocacy of Christ to maintain the fellowship (1 John 2:1-2 ) 4. The tests of fellowship (1 John 2:3-17 ) 1 John 1:5-7 The message they had heard of Him and which they declared to others is, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. Light, perfect, pure light is God’s nature; He is absolutely holy, with no... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 1 John 2:2

2:2 And he is the {b} propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of] the {c} whole world.(b) Reconciliation and intercession go together, to give us to understand that he is both advocate and high priest.(c) For men of all sorts, of all ages, and all places, so that this benefit being not to the Jews only, of whom he speaks as appears in 1 John 2:7 but also to other nations. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 2:1-29

“My children, these things I write to you in order that ye may not sin; and if anyone sin, we have a patron with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (JND). If we have seen some absolute, positive facts of truth in Chapter 1, now this verse calls for practical results in the believer. Notice that here for the first time “children” are addressed. And how vital is their need of the Word of God as a preservative from sin! Here is a provision to keep the child of God from sinning. Certainly God... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - 1 John 2:1-28

GOD IS LIGHT First John is addressed to no particular church or individual, but it is thought that the apostle had in mind a cycle of churches like the seven of Asia (see Revelation 1:0 ). It is likely that the Christians to whom he wrote were of Gentile rather than Jewish origin, as judged by the few references to the Old Testament, and by such allusions as that in 1 John 5:21 . The epistle was written later than the Gospel by the same author, as gathered from the circumstances that an... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - 1 John 2:1-3

The Patriarch In the Church 1Jn 2:1-3 John will not have any sin. He was an old man, but he would not set apart any margin for sinning, self-indulgence, worldly-mindedness; he would have the heart absolutely consecrated, fully, wholly, intensely consecrated, to God. How paternally and tenderly he talks, as he had a right to do. When a man is a hundred years old, all other men are looked upon as quite juvenile and inexperienced. Some want to play the rôle of old men and try to look very... read more

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