ACC ~ 1 John 2 v20

YOU HAVE BEEN ANOINTED. SEVERUS OF ANTIOCH: All have been anointed, not only the prophets and holy men who lived in their days but also and especially all those who later believed in the great and only true anointed one (Christ), our God and Savior, along with those who continue to believe in him. For in the divine washing of regeneration and baptism when we are symbolically anointed with myrrh, we receive his inheritance by the Holy Spirit and his rich gifts, by which we know that we are heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ. CATENA.

ANOINTED AT BAPTISM. ANDREAS: This is what each of us has received at baptism. CATENA.

SPIRITUAL ANOINTING. BEDE: The spiritual anointing is the Holy Spirit himself, who is given in the sacrament of anointing. John says that they all have this anointing and can distinguish good people from evil ones, so that he has no need to teach them what they already know because of their anointing. Because he is talking about heretics in this passage, he points out that they have received their anointing from the Holy One in order to underline the fact that the heretics and all antichrists are deprived of that gift and do not belong to the Lord but rather are servants of Satan. ON 1 JOHN.

YOU ALL KNOW. OECUMENIUS: They had all received the sacred anointing by their baptism and by the same Holy Spirit who led them into all truth. Because of this John was not writing to the ignorant but to people who knew what he was talking about. COMMENTARY ON 1 JOHN.

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