ACC ~ 1 John 4 v15

CONFESSING HIS HUMANITY AND DIVINITY. DIDYMUS THE BLIND: This needs to be properly understood. God will not dwell in anyone who does not obey his commandments, however much he may confess him with his lips. Some people are confused by the various names of Jesus, because they do not interpret the Scriptures correctly. They think that because he came out of the womb of Mary according to the flesh and was given the name Jesus at that time, he is not to be identified with the eternal Son of God, who did not think it robbery to be considered equal with God. They restrict themselves to the human form which the Word of God assumed, even though the being of the Word was never changed into humanity. To confess the one Lord Jesus Christ is to confess him as God and man, not as a man only. COMMENTARY ON 1 JOHN.

WHOEVER CONFESSES. BEDE: John says that the perfect confession of the heart is one which cannot be corrupted by the wicked persuasion of the heretics. It cannot be overcome by the tortures inflicted by pagans in persecution or slacken under the pressure of the example of worldly brothers or the weakness of our own frailty. ON 1 JOHN.

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