约翰一书 5:10-13 RCUVSS

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 5:9-12

The Divine witness subjectively verified. Connecting link: The main topic is now the witness of God. In the preceding sketch we dwelt upon the witness of God objectively given. Now we have for our topic— The witness of God verified in the individual experience. The apostle gives us this in two forms—the positive and the negative. I. LET US INQUIRE WHAT THIS INWARD WITNESS IS . "The witness in himself." So far as the expression is concerned, apart front the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 5:10

Hath the witness in him. This rendering is to be preferred to either "in Him," i.e., God, or" in himself." The former is obscure in meaning; the latter, though probably correct as an interpretation, is inaccurate as a translation, for the better reading is αὐτῷ , not ἑαυτῷ . But ἐν αὐτῷ may be reflexive. The believer in the Incarnation has the Divine testimony in his heart, and it abides with him as an additional source of evidence, supplementing and confirming the external... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 5:11

"And the substance of the internal testimony is this—we are conscious of the Divine gift of eternal life, and this we have in the Son of God." St. John's ζωὴ αἰώνιος is not "everlasting life:" the idea of endlessness may be included in it, but it is not the main one. The distinction between eternity and time is one which the human mind feels to be real and necessary. But we are apt to lose ourselves when we try to think of eternity. We admit that it is not time, that it is the very... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 5:12

Eternal life is not granted to the whole world, or even to all Christians en masse; it is given to individuals, soul by soul, according as each does or does not accept the Son of God. The order of the Greek is noteworthy—in the first half of the verse the emphasis is on "hath," in the second on "life." Here, as in John 1:4 , the article before ζωή should be translated, "hath the life… hath not the life." The insertion of τοῦ θεοῦ in the second half of the verse points to the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 5:12

The supreme possession. "He that hath the Son hath the life," etc. In our text the apostle expresses— I. A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST . "He that hath the Son." What are we to understand by these words? What is involved in them? 1 . Realizing faith in him. 2 . Acceptance of his teaching. The Christian is intellectually and practically loyal to the teaching of Jesus Christ. In a very true and important sense Plato may be said to have had... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 5:13

These things I have written to you sums up the Epistle as a whole. At the outset the apostle said, "These things we write, that our joy [yours as well as mine] may be fulfilled;" and now, as he draws to a close, he says the same thing in other words. Their joy is the knowledge that they have eternal life through belief in the Son of God. There is considerable variety of reading in this verse, but that of the T.R., represented by the Authorized Version, is a manifest simplification. That... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 5:13

£ On believers knowing that they have eternal life. Connecting link: The statements which have just been made point out very clearly who have the eternal life and who have it not. But it is quite possible that such statements may exist, may be before a man's eye, may have been read over again and again, and yet they may have been left unapplied to himself by him who reads them. But it is not enough to know what the eternal life is, and what are the marks of its existence. It is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 5:13-17

Assurance. I. THE AIM OF THE EPISTLE CONNECTED WITH ASSURANCE . "These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even unto you that believe on the Name of the Son of God." At the beginning of the Epistle, the apostle's aim was stated to be Divine fellowship and completed joy. In looking back, he feels that he has kept his end in view. In the restatement of his aim, he goes the length of completed joy. Beyond the quickening of their... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 5:13-21

4. CONCLUSION OF EPISTLE ; without, however, any marked break between this section and the last On the contrary, the prominent thought of eternal life through faith in the Son of God is continued for final development. This topic is the main idea alike of the Gospel ( John 20:31 ) and of the Epistle, with this difference—in the Gospel the purpose is that we may have eternal life; in the Epistle, that we may know that we have eternal life. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 John 5:10

He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself - The evidence that Jesus is the Son of God. Compare the notes at Romans 8:16. This cannot refer to any distinct and immediate “revelation” of that fact, that Jesus is the Christ, to the soul of the individual, and is not to be understood as independent of the external evidence of that truth, or as superseding the necessity of that evidence; but the “witness” here referred to is the fruit of all the evidence, external and internal,... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 5:9-12

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 5:10

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 5:11

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 5:12

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 5:12

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 5:13

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 5:13

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 5:13-17

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 5:13-21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 John 5:10

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