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The epistles of John by The American Revised Version of the Scriptures has been employed / Reprinted by permission 1982
The leading feature of John's ministry, differing from that of Peter and Paul, is that it occupies us with God Himself, with what He is in Himself, the life of God - the eternal life that was ever with the Father, John presents in his Gospel the manifestation of God in the Lord Jesus Christ--the Man Christ Jesus. In John's Epistles, that eternal life, once found only in Christ, is seen as communicated to those who believe in Jesus, and displaying itself in us. John occupies our hearts with the Blesser Himself. We are so prone to be occupied with our blessings rather than with Him; and here John's ministry fills a most necessary place, one full of blessing and greatly needed by the believer. What would all our blessings be without the Lord Jesus Christ, the Blesser? The Giver is greater than His gifts. The Father who gave the Son, and the Son who gave Himself for us are far above the benefits they have secured to us; and we need the sense of this in our souls to keep us from glorifying ourselves on account of the great blessings that have been given unto us. The ministry of John serves to maintain that very needed realization. The purpose of John is twofold: to show who Jesus is, and that those who believe may have everlasting life, through His Name.
The American Revised Version of the Scriptures has been employed as the text of these Epistles rather than the familiar King James Authorized Version. There are many delicate shades of thought in this important portion of God's Word-perhaps more than in almost any other book of the New Testament -which are lost or confused in the Authorized Version. There are truths here, as Peter says in regard to Paul's writings-2 Peter 3:16-"hard to be understood, and which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction." I have endeavored to avail myself of the help supplied by various translators of the Bible, to arrive at the most correct interpretation of the precious (and by no means easily understood or explained) truths of these letters from the pen of the beloved Apostle John. It is with the earnest hope and prayer that this commentary may supply a simple view of the deep truths in these Epistles that it is being sent forth. If the reader derives
as much blessing from the reading as the author has from the writing of it, he will be well repaid.
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