ACC ~ 1 John 5 v11

ETERNAL LIFE. BEDE: John says that God has given us eternal life, and remember that he was saying this at a time when he was still in the flesh and subject to physical death. But God gave us eternal life in exactly the same way as he has given us the power to become his children. Right now we live on earth in the hope of his promise, which we shall receive in its fullness after we die and go to be with him. ON 1 JOHN.

THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON. OECUMENIUS: God has promised to give us eternal life because we have been adopted into him through his Son, of whom Scripture says: “In him was life.”Therefore whoever has the Son by holy baptism also has life. COMMENTARY ON 1 JOHN.

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