ACC ~ 1 John 4 v4

GOD’S POWER. HILARY OF ARLES: God’s power to save is always much greater than the devil’s power to do harm. INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 1 JOHN.

HE WHO IS IN YOU. ANDREAS: The one who is in you is God the Father, through the Son and the Paraclete. The one in the world is Satan, for “world” here refers to evil people. CATENA.

YOU HAVE OVERCOME BY BELIEVING. BEDE: By believing that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh you have already overcome the antichrist. “For greater love has no man than this, that a man should lay down his life for his friends.” But how could the Son of God have laid down his life for us if he had not taken on human flesh, which made it possible for him to die? Anyone who violates the law of love denies by the way he lives that Christ has come in the flesh, whatever his tongue might say, and this person is the antichrist. ON 1 JOHN.

FALSE PROPHETS MAKE BELIEVERS SAD. THEOPHYLACT: You have overcome the false prophets because the God who is in you is greater than the one by whom the false prophets have chosen to live. There is another sign of false prophets, which is that they make simple believers sad. There must be many who react very badly when they see the so-called prophets being given the highest honors while they themselves are treated with disrespect by the world. COMMENTARY ON 1 JOHN.

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