ACC ~ 2 John 1 v3

FROM JESUS CHRIST THE FATHER’S SON. BEDE: Because the heretics of that time, people like Marcion and Cerinthus, denied that our Lord Jesus Christ was the true Son of God and claimed that he was born in a merely human way, John rightly recalls that he is the Son of God the Father in order to refute these blasphemers. He also bears witness that grace, mercy and peace come from the Son in exactly the same way as they come from the Father, thereby demonstrating that the Father and the Son are equal and consubstantial with each other. ON 2 JOHN.

IN TRUTH AND LOVE. OECUMENIUS: Here John is saying that good things arise out of perfect love. His choice of words here gives solidity to what he is saying and provide real evidence of his charity, or love, toward those to whom he is writing. COMMENTARY ON 2 JOHN.