ACC ~ 1 John 5 v19

IN THE POWER OF THE EVIL ONE. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: “World” does not mean creation as a whole but rather worldly people and those who live according to their lusts. ADUMBRATIONS.

THE WORLD SUBJECTED TO EVIL. DIDYMUS THE BLIND: The “world,” that is, those who love the world, are subjected to evil. This includes everybody, because we are all born under sin, which traces its origin to the disobedience of Adam. Many heretics claim that there is a creator god who made the world evil to begin with, but this is not so. The word refers to people, not to the material substance of creation. COMMENTARY ON 1 JOHN.

WE ARE OF GOD. BEDE: We know that we are of God because we have been born again by grace and baptism through faith, and we know too that we shall persevere in that faith to the very end. But those who love the world are subjected to the enemy, and there is no water of regeneration which can deliver them from that subjection, especially if they sin again after their baptism. Nor is it just the lovers of the world who are in this state, because it applies also to those who are newly born and who have inherited the guilt of original sin, although they cannot yet tell the difference between good and evil. Such people are in the power of the enemy, unless by the power of a loving Creator they are taken out of the power of darkness and placed in the kingdom of the Son of his love. ON 1 JOHN.

PERVERSION GENERATES SIN. ISHO’DAD OF MERV: The world is subjected to the perversion which gives birth to sin, and because of that it is prone to the cultivation of evil things. COMMENTARIES.

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