{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/pnt/jo2001.htm","path":"bib/cmt/pnt/jo2001.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/pnt/jo2001.htm","text":"The People's New Testament, B.W. Johnson, [1891]\nThe elder. John, unlike Peter and Paul, nowhere in his writings speaks of himself as an apostle. Peter also speaks of himself as an elder. John probably uses the term here, not officially, but in reference to his great age, as the only survivor of the apostles, and perhaps then the only personal disciple of the Lord living.\nUnto the elect lady. The term is Kyria in the Greek, a term which we know to have been a female proper name. Hence many of the best commentators from the time of Athanasius have held that this is the name of the sister. If not a proper name Kyria would be the feminine form of Kurios (Lord), the term applied to Christ, a worldly title unaccountable in the church, which does not recognize artificial distinctions of rank. To avoid this difficulty some have held that by \"Kyria\" the church is meant. It is better to regard the term a proper name.\nWhom. That is, the mother and her children.\nFor the truth's sake. Those who love in truth, love for the truth's sake.\nGrace be with you. The usual benediction of the saints.\nThe Lord Jesus Christ. The Revision omits Lord, a word which occurs nowhere else in John's Epistles.\nI rejoiced greatly. Because he had found her children walking in the truth, by keeping the commandment of the Father. The commandment referred to, the one which sums up all, is love.\nAnd now I beseech thee, lady. Kyria in Greek. If lady at all it would mean \"your ladyship.\"\nNot as though I wrote a new commandment. Love embraces all. Compare Jo1 2:7.\nAnd this is love, etc. Keeping the commandments is the demonstration of love. Compare Jo1 5:3, and Joh 14:15, Joh 14:23.\nFor many deceivers are entered into the world.\nAntichrist. Opposed to Christ.\nLook to yourselves. Let not these deceivers lead you astray.\nThe full reward. Belonging to all saints who continue to abide in Christ.\nWhosoever transgresseth. He that lives a life of transgression cannot abide in Christ.\nAbideth in the doctrine. The teaching, the Gospel.\nIf there come . . . and bring not this doctrine. That of Christ. If he be a deceiver, an opposer of Christ, one who denies that \"Jesus Christ came in the flesh.\"\nReceive him not into your house. Do not recognize him as a brother and extend to him a brotherly welcome. He is not to be fellowshipped.\nNeither bid him God speed. Give him no encouragement in his work of destruction. To give him greetings is to wish for his success.\nFor he that biddeth, etc. He that gives him these prayerful greetings and encouragement becomes a partaker, to that extent, in his evil deeds.\nHaving many things. Though many more things occurred that he wished to write about, he hopes soon to see her and speak face to face.\nThe children of thy elect sister. It is usually supposed that this refers to a sister in the flesh, also one of the elect, whose children, probably grown up and Christians, were at that time with John.","title":"The People's New Testament: 2 John: 2 John Chapter 1","type":"page"}