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Epistle of John, 1st","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE\n\nThe same vein of divine love and charity towards our neighbour, which\nruns throughout the Gospel written by the beloved disciple and\nEvangelist, St. John, is found also in his Epistles. He confirms the two\nprincipal mysteries of faith: The mystery of the Trinity and the mystery\nof the incarnation of Jesus Christ the Son of God. The sublimity and\nexcellence of the evangelical doctrine he declares: And this commandment\nwe have from God, that he, who loveth God, love also his brother (chap.\n4,21). And again: For this is the charity of God, that we keep his\ncommandments, and: His commandments are not heavy (chap. 5,3).  He shews\nhow to distinguish the children of God from those of the devil: marks\nout those who should be called Antichrists: describes the turpitude and\ngravity of sin. Finally, he shews how the sinner may hope for pardon. It\nwas written, according to Baronius' account, sixty-six years after our\nLord's Ascension.\n\n\n1 John Chapter 1\n\nHe declares what he has seen and heard of Christ who is the life\neternal, to the end that we may have fellowship with God and all good\nthrough him. Yet so if we confess our sins.\n\n1:1. That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we\nhave seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and our hands have\nhandled, of the word of life.\n\n1:2. For the life was manifested: and we have seen and do bear witness\nand declare unto you the life eternal, which was with the Father and\nhath appeared to us.\n\n1:3. That which we have seen and have heard, we declare unto you: that\nyou also may have fellowship with us and our fellowship may be with the\nFather and with his Son Jesus Christ.\n\n1:4. And these things we write to you, that you may rejoice and your joy\nmay be full.\n\n1:5. And this is the declaration which we have heard from him and\ndeclare unto you: That God is light and in him there is no darkness.\n\n1:6. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we\nlie and do not the truth.\n\n1:7. But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light, we have\nfellowship one with another: And the blood of Jesus Christ his Son\ncleanseth us from all sin.\n\n1:8. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth\nis not in us.\n\n1:9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our\nsins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.\n\n1:10. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar: and his\nword is not in us.\n\n1 John Chapter 2\n\nChrist is our advocate. We must keep his commandments and love one\nanother. We must not love the world nor give ear to new teachers, but\nabide by the spirit of God in the church.\n\n2:1. My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not\nsin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus\nChrist the just.  2:2. And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not\nfor ours only, but also for those of the whole world.\n\n2:3. And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his\ncommandments.\n\nWe have known him, if we keep his commandments...  He speaks of that\npractical knowledge by love and affection, which can only be proved by\nour keeping his commandments; and without which we can not be said to\nknow God as we should do.\n\n2:4. He who saith that he knoweth him and keepeth not his commandments\nis a liar: and the truth is not in him.\n\n2:5. But he that keepeth his word, in him in very deed the charity of\nGod is perfected. And by this we know that we are in him.\n\n2:6. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as\nhe walked.\n\n2:7. Dearly beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old\ncommandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the\nword which you have heard.\n\n2:8. Again a new commandment I write unto you: which thing is true both\nin him and in you, because the darkness is passed and the true light now\nshineth.\n\nA new commandment... Viz., the commandment of love, which was first\ngiven in the old law; but was renewed and extended by Christ.  See John\n13.34.\n\n2:9. He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in\ndarkness even until now.\n\n2:10. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light: and there is no\nscandal in him.\n\n2:11. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in\ndarkness and knoweth not whither he goeth: because the darkness hath\nblinded his eyes.\n\n2:12. I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven\nyou for his name's sake.\n\n2:13. I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him who is from\nthe beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome\nthe wicked one.\n\n2:14. I write unto you, babes, because you have known the Father. I\nwrite unto you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God\nabideth in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.\n\n2:15. Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any\nman love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.\n\n2:16. For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and\nthe concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life, which is not of the\nFather but is of the world.\n\n2:17. And the world passeth away and the concupiscence thereof: but he\nthat doth the will of God abideth for ever.\n\n2:18. Little children, it is the last hour: and as you have heard that\nAntichrist cometh, even now there are become many Antichrists: whereby\nwe know that it is the last hour.\n\nIt is the last hour... That is, it is the last age of the world.  Many\nAntichrists;... that is, many heretics, enemies of Christ and his\nchurch, and forerunners of the great Antichrist.\n\n2:19. They went out from us but they were not of us. For if they had\nbeen of us, they would no doubt have remained with us: but that they may\nbe manifest, that they are not all of us.\n\nThey were not of us... That is, they were not solid, steadfast, genuine\nChristians: otherwise they would have remained in the church.\n\n2:20. But you have the unction from the Holy One and know all things.\n\nThe unction from the Holy One... That is, grace and wisdom from the Holy\nGhost. Know all things... The true children of God's church, remaining\nin unity, under the guidance of their lawful pastors, partake of the\ngrace of the Holy Ghost, promised to the church and her pastors; and\nhave in the church all necessary knowledge and instruction; so as to\nhave no need to seek it elsewhere, since it can be only found in that\nsociety of which they are members.\n\n2:21. I have not written to you as to them that know not the truth, but\nas to them that know it: and that no lie is of the truth.\n\n2:22. Who is a liar, but he who denieth that Jesus is the Christ?  This\nis Antichrist, who denieth the Father and the Son.\n\n2:23. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father. He that\nconfesseth the Son hath the Father also.\n\n2:24. As for you, let that which you have heard from the beginning abide\nin you. If that abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning,\nyou also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.\n\n2:25. And this is the promise which he hath promised us, life\neverlasting.\n\n2:26. These things have I written to you concerning them that seduce\nyou.\n\n2:27. And as for you, let the unction, which you have received from him\nabide in you. And you have no need that any man teach you: but as his\nunction teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lie. And as it\nhath taught you, abide in him.\n\nYou have no need, etc... You want not to be taught by any of these men,\nwho, under pretence of imparting more knowledge to you, seek to seduce\nyou (ver. 26), since you are sufficiently taught already, and have all\nknowledge and grace in the church, with the unction of the Holy Ghost;\nwhich these new teachers have no share in.\n\n2:28. And now, little children, abide in him, that when he shall appear\nwe may have confidence and not be confounded by him at his coming.\n\n2:29. If you know that he is just, know ye, that every one also who doth\njustice is born of him.\n\n1 John Chapter 3\n\nOf the love of God to us. How we may distinguish the children of God and\nthose of the devil. Of loving one another and of purity of conscience.\n\n3:1. Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us,\nthat we should be called and should be the sons of God.  Therefore the\nworld knoweth not us, because it knew not him.\n\n3:2. Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God: and it hath not yet\nappeared what we shall be. We know that when he shall appear we shall be\nlike to him: because we shall see him as he is.\n\n3:3. And every one that hath this hope in him sanctifieth himself, as he\nalso is holy.\n\n3:4. Whosoever committeth sin committeth also iniquity. And sin is\niniquity.\n\nIniquity... transgression of the law.\n\n3:5. And you know that he appeared to take away our sins: and in him\nthere is no sin.\n\n3:6. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: and whosoever sinneth hath\nnot seen him nor known him.\n\nSinneth not... viz., mortally. See chap. 1.8.\n\n3:7. Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doth justice is\njust, even as he is just.\n\n3:8. He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from\nthe beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared, that he might\ndestroy the works of the devil.\n\n3:9. Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth\nin him. And he cannot sin, because he is born of God.\n\nCommitteth not sin... That is, as long as he keepeth in himself this\nseed of grace, and this divine generation, by which he is born of God.\nBut then he may fall from this happy state, by the abuse of his free\nwill, as appears from Rom. 11.20-22; Cor. 9.27; and 10.12; Phil. 2.12;\nApoc. 3.11.\n\n3:10. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the\ndevil. Whosoever is not just is not of God, or he that loveth not his\nbrother.\n\n3:11. For this is the declaration which you have heard from the\nbeginning, that you should love one another.\n\n3:12. Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother.\nAnd wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and\nhis brother's just.\n\n3:13. Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you.\n\n3:14. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love\nthe brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.\n\n3:15. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And you know that no\nmurderer hath eternal life abiding in himself.\n\n3:16. In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid\ndown his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the\nbrethren.\n\n3:17. He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his brother\nin need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of\nGod abide in him?\n\n3:18. My little children, let us not love in word nor in tongue, but in\ndeed and in truth.\n\n3:19. In this we know that we are of the truth and in his sight shall\npersuade our hearts.\n\n3:20. For if our heart reprehend us, God is greater than our heart and\nknoweth all things.\n\n3:21. Dearly beloved, if our heart do not reprehend us, we have\nconfidence towards God.\n\n3:22. And whatsoever we shall ask, we shall receive of him: because we\nkeep his commandments and do those things which are pleasing in his\nsight.\n\n3:23. And this is his commandment: That we should believe in the name of\nhis Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as he hath given commandment\nunto us.\n\n3:24. And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in\nhim. And in this we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit which he\nhath given us.\n\n1 John Chapter 4\n\nWhat spirits are of God, and what are not. We must love one another,\nbecause God has loved us.\n\n4:1. Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if\nthey be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.\n\nTry the spirits... Viz., by examining whether their teaching be\nagreeable to the rule of the Catholic faith, and the doctrine of the\nchurch. For as he says, (ver. 6,) He that knoweth God, heareth us [the\npastors of the church]. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the\nspirit of error.\n\n4:2. By this is the spirit of God known. Every spirit which confesseth\nthat Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:\n\nEvery spirit which confesseth, etc... Not that the confession of this\npoint of faith alone, is, at all times, and in all cases, sufficient;\nbut that with relation to that time, and for that part of the Christian\ndoctrine, which was then particularly to be confessed, taught, and\nmaintained against the heretics of those days, this was the most proper\ntoken, by which the true teachers might be distinguished form the false.\n\n4:3. And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus is not of God. And this is\nAntichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh: and he is now already\nin the world.\n\nThat dissolveth Jesus... Viz., either by denying his humanity, or his\ndivinity. He is now already in the world... Not in his person, but in\nhis spirit, and in his precursors.\n\n4:4. You are of God, little children, and have overcome him.  Because\ngreater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.\n\n4:5. They are of the world. Therefore of the world they speak: and the\nworld heareth them.\n\n4:6. We are of God. He that knoweth God heareth us. He that is not of\nGod heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit\nof error.\n\n4:7. Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for charity is of God. And\nevery one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.\n\n4:8. He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is charity.\n\n4:9. By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God\nhath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him.\n\n4:10. In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he\nhath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.\n\n4:11. My dearest, if God hath so loved us, we also ought to love one\nanother.\n\n4:12. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God\nabideth in us: and his charity is perfected in us.\n\n4:13. In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us: because he\nhath given us of his spirit.\n\n4:14. And we have seen and do testify that the Father hath sent his Son\nto be the Saviour of the world.\n\n4:15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth\nin him, and he in God.\n\n4:16. And we have known and have believed the charity which God hath to\nus. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity abideth in God, and\nGod in him.\n\n4:17. In this is the charity of God perfected with us, that we may have\nconfidence in the day of judgment: because as he is, we also are in this\nworld.\n\n4:18. Fear is not in charity: but perfect charity casteth out fear,\nbecause fear hath sin. And he that feareth is not perfected in charity.\n\nFear is not in charity, etc... Perfect charity, or love, banisheth human\nfear, that is, the fear of men; as also all perplexing fear, which makes\nmen mistrust or despair of God's mercy; and that kind of servile fear,\nwhich makes them fear the punishment of sin more than the offence\noffered to God. But it no way excludes the wholesome fear of God's\njudgments, so often recomended in holy writ; nor that fear and\ntrembling, with which we are told to work out our salvation. Phil. 2.12.\n\n4:19. Let us therefore love God: because God first hath loved us.\n\n4:20. If any man say: I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar.\nFor he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth, how can he love God\nwhom he seeth not?\n\n4:21. And this commandment we have from God, that he who loveth God love\nalso his brother.\n\n1 John Chapter 5\n\nOf them that are born of God, and of true charity. Faith overcomes the\nworld. Three that bear witness to Christ. Of faith in his name and of\nsin that is and is not to death.\n\n5:1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God.  And\nevery one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him.\n\nIs born of God... That is, is justified, and become a child of God by\nbaptism: which is also to be understood; provided the belief of this\nfundamental article of the Christian faith be accompanied with all the\nother conditions, which, by the word of God, and his appointment, are\nalso required to justification; such as a general belief of all that God\nhas revealed and promised: hope, love, repentance, and a sincere\ndisposition to keep God's holy law and commandments.\n\n5:2. In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God\nand keep his commandments.\n\n5:3. For this is the charity of God: That we keep his commandments.  And\nhis commandments are not heavy.\n\n5:4. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world. And this is the\nvictory which overcameth the world: Our faith.\n\nOur faith... Not a bare, speculative, or dead faith; but a faith that\nworketh by charity. Gal. 5.6\n\n5:5. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that\nJesus is the Son of God?\n\n5:6. This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus Christ: not by water\nonly but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit which testifieth that\nChrist is the truth.\n\nCame by water and blood... Not only to wash away our sins by the water\nof baptism, but by his own blood.\n\n5:7. And there are Three who give testimony in heaven, the Father, the\nWord, and the Holy Ghost. And these three are one.\n\n5:8. And there are three that give testimony on earth: the spirit and\nthe water and the blood. And these three are one.\n\nThe spirit, and the water, and the blood... As the Father, the Word, and\nthe Holy Ghost, all bear witness to Christ's divinity; so the spirit,\nwhich he yielded up, crying out with a loud voice upon the cross; and\nthe water and blood that issued from his side, bear witness to his\nhumanity, and are one; that is, all agree in one testimony.\n\n5:9. If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is\ngreater. For this is the testimony of God, which is greater, because he\nhath testified of his Son.\n\n5:10. He that believeth in the Son of God hath the testimony of God in\nhimself. He that believeth not the Son maketh him a liar: because he\nbelieveth not in the testimony which God hath testified of his Son.\n\nHe that believeth not the Son, etc... By refusing to believe the\ntestimonies given by the three divine persons, that Jesus was the\nMessias, and the true Son of God, by whom eternal life is obtained and\npromised to all that comply with his doctrine. In him we have also this\nlively confidence, that we shall obtain whatever we ask, according to\nhis will, when we ask what is for our good, with perseverance, and in\nthe manner we ought. And this we know, and have experience of, by having\nobtained the petitions that we have made.\n\n5:11. And this is the testimony that God hath given to us eternal life.\nAnd this life is in his Son.\n\n5:12. He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son hath not\nlife.\n\n5:13. These things I write to you that you may know that you have\neternal life: you who believe in the name of the Son of God.\n\n5:14. And this is the confidence which we have towards him: That,\nwhatsoever we shall ask according to his will, he heareth us.\n\n5:15. And we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask: we know that we\nhave the petitions which we request of him.\n\n5:16. He that knoweth his brother to sin a sin which is not to death,\nlet him ask: and life shall be given to him who sinneth not to death.\nThere is a sin unto death. For that I say not that any man ask.\n\nA sin which is not to death, etc... It is hard to determine what St.\nJohn here calls a sin which is not to death, and a sin which is unto\ndeath. The difference can not be the same as betwixt sins that are\ncalled venial and mortal: for he says, that if a man pray for his\nbrother, who commits a sin that is not to death, life shall be given\nhim: therefore such a one had before lost the life of grace, and been\nguilty of what is commonly called a mortal sin.  And when he speaks of a\nsin that is unto death, and adds these words, for that I say not that\nany man ask, it cannot be supposed that St. John would say this of every\nmortal sin, but only of some heinous sins, which are very seldom\nremitted, because such sinners very seldom repent. By a sin therefore\nwhich is unto death, interpreters commonly understand a wilfull apostasy\nfrom the faith, and from the known truth, when a sinner, hardened by his\nown ingratitude, becomes deaf to all admonitions, will do nothing for\nhimself, but runs on to a final impenitence. Nor yet does St. John say,\nthat such a sin is never remitted, or cannnot be remitted, but only has\nthese words, for that I say not that any man ask the remission: that\nis, though we must pray for all sinners whatsoever, yet men can not pray\nfor such sinners with such a confidence of obtaining always their\npetitions, as St. John said before, ver. 14.  Whatever exposition we\nfollow on this verse, our faith teacheth us from the holy scriptures,\nthat God desires not the death of any sinner, but that he be converted\nand live, Ezech. 33.11. Though men's sins be as red as scarlet, they\nshall become as white as snow, Isa. 3.18. It is the will of God that\nevery one come to the knowledge of the truth, and be saved. There is no\nsin so great but which God is willing to forgive, and has left a power\nin his church to remit the most enormous sins: so that no sinner need\ndespair of pardon, nor will any sinner perist, but by his own fault. A\nsin unto death... Some understand this of final impenitence, or of dying\nin mortal sin; which is the only sin that never can be remitted. But, it\nis probable, he may also comprise under this name, the sin of apostasy\nfrom the faith, and some other such heinous sins as are seldom and\nhardly remitted: and therefore he gives little encouragement, to such as\npray for these sinners, to expect what they ask.\n\n5:17. All iniquity is sin. And there is a sin unto death.\n\n5:18. We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not: but the\ngeneration of God preserveth him and the wicked one toucheth him not.\n\n5:19. We know that we are of God and the whole world is seated in\nwickedness.\n\nAnd the whole world is seated in wickedness... That is, a great part of\nthe world. It may also signify, is under the wicked one, meaning the\ndevil, who is elsewhere called the prince of this world, that is, of all\nthe wicked. John 12.31.\n\n5:20. And we know that the Son of God is come. And he hath given us\nunderstanding that we may know the true God and may be in his true Son.\nThis is the true God and life eternal.\n\nAnd may be in his true Son. He is, or this is the true God, and life\neternal... Which words are a clear proof of Christ's divinity, and as\nsuch made use of by the ancient fathers.\n\n5:21. Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.\n\nKeep yourselves from idols... An admonition to the newly converted\nChristians, lest conversing with heathens and idolaters, they might fall\nback into the sin of idolatry, which may be the sin unto death here\nmentioned by St. John.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 69: 1 John: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":4474}