Verse 3
3. Every spirit that confesseth not The Vulgate has this remarkable reading of this verse: “Every spirit which separates Jesus is not of God.” This alludes to the heresy of Cerinthus, the contemporary of John, who taught that Jesus was merely the son of human parents, but that the Christ was an aeon, or superhuman being? who descended upon Jesus at his baptism; thus separating the person of Jesus. It would seem that the ancient Greek Church historian, Socrates, recognised this reading in ancient manuscripts, as well as Tertullian, Irenaeus, and Origen. But all the Greek MSS., and all the Versions except the Vulgate, have the present reading.
That spirit of antichrist The special doctrine of emphatically the antichrist, based on the affirmation that all evil is identical with matter.
Should come Was prophesied as to come immediately before the second advent.
Already is it See note on 1 John 2:18.
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