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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:8

He that loveth not - As already described, knoweth not God - has no experimental knowledge of him. God is love - An infinite fountain of benevolence and beneficence to every human being. He hates no thing that he has made. He cannot hate, because he is love. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends his rain on the just and the unjust. He has made no human being for perdition, nor ever rendered it impossible, by any necessitating decree, for any fallen soul to find... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:9

In this was manifested the love of God - The mission of Jesus Christ was the fullest proof that God could give, or that man could receive, of his infinite love to the world. That we might live through him - The whole world was sentenced to death because of sin; and every individual was dead in trespasses and sins; and Jesus came to die in the stead of the world, and to quicken every believer, that all might live to him who died for them and rose again. This is another strong allusion to ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:10

Not that we loved God - And that he was thereby induced to give his Son to be a propitiation for our sins. No: we were enemies to God, and yet Christ died for our ungodly souls. (See Romans 5:6-11 , and the notes there.) So it was God's love, not our merit, that induced him to devise means that his banished might not be expelled from him. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:11

If God so loved us - Without any reason or consideration on our part, and without any desert in us; we ought also, in like manner, to love one another, and not suspend our love to a fellow-creature, either on his moral worth or his love to us. We should love one another for God's sake; and then, no unkind carriage of a brother would induce us to withdraw our love from him; for if it have God for its motive and model, it will never fail. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:7

Verse 7 7Beloved He returns to that exhortation which he enforces almost throughout the Epistle. We have, indeed, said, that it is filled with the doctrine of faith and exhortation to love. On these two points he so dwells, that he continually passes from the one to the other. When he commands mutual love, he does not mean that we discharge this duty when we love our friends, because they love us; but as he addresses in common the faithful, he could not have spoken otherwise than that they... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:8

Verse 8 He also sets in opposition to this, according to his usual manner, the contrary clause, that there is no knowledge of God where there is no love. And he takes as granted a general principle or truth, that God is love, that is, that his nature is to love men. I know that many reason more refinedly, and that the ancients especially have perverted this passage in order to prove the divinity of the Spirit. But the meaning of the Apostle is simply this, — that as God is the fountain of love,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:9

Verse 9 9In this was manifested, or, has appeared. We have the love of God towards us testified also by many other proofs. For if it be asked, why the world has been created, why we have been placed in it to possess the dominion of the earth, why we are preserved in life to enjoy innumerable blessings, why we are endued with light and understanding, no other reason can be adduced, except the gratuitous love of God. But the Apostle here has chosen the principal evidence of it, and what far... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:10

Verse 10 10Herein is love He amplifies God’s love by another reason, that he gave us his own Son at the time when we were enemies, as Paul teaches us, in Romans 5:8; but he employs other words, that God, induced by no love of men, freely loved them. He meant by these words to teach us that God’s love towards us has been gratuitous. And though it was the Apostle’s object to set forth God as an example to be imitated by us; yet the doctrine of faith which he intermingles, ought not to be... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:11

Verse 11 11Beloved Now the Almighty accommodates to his own purpose what he has just taught us respecting the love of God; for he exhorts us by God’s example to brotherly love; as also Paul sets before us Christ, who offered himself to the Father a sacrifice of pleasant fragrance, that every one of us might labor to benefit his neighbors. (Ephesians 5:2.) And John reminds us, that our love ought not to be mercenary, when he bids us to love our neighbors as God has loved us; for we ought to... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 4:7

Beloved (see on 1 John 4:1 ) The address is specially suitable where the subject is love. As before, we must not look for the chief purport of the section in the exhortation with which it opens. Just as "prove the spirits" is subordinate to "every spirit which confesseth," etc., so "let us love one another" is subordinate to "God is Love." (For the history and meaning of the specially Christian term ἀγάπη , see Trench's 'Synonyms of New Testament.') read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:7

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:9

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 4:11

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 4:7

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