Second John
From the Original 1599 Geneva Bible Notes
2Jo 1:1
1:1 The elder unto the {a}
elect {b} lady and her children, {1} whom I love in the truth; and not I only,
but also all they that have known the truth;
(a) This is not a proper
name, but is to be taken as it sounds that is to say, the worthy and noble
lady.
(b) Excellent and honourable woman.
(1) The bond of Christian union is the true and constant profession of the
truth.
2Jo 1:3
1:3 Grace be with you, mercy,
[and] peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of
the Father, in
(c) truth and love.
(c) With true knowledge
which always has love united with it, and following it.
2Jo 1:4
1:4 {2} I rejoiced greatly
that I found of thy children walking in {d} truth, as we have received a
commandment from the Father.
(2) This true profession
consists both in love towards one another which the Lord has commanded, and
also especially in wholesome and sound doctrine, which also is delivered to
us: for the commandment of God is a sound and sure foundation both of the
rule of conduct and of doctrine, and these cannot be separated from one
another,
(d) According as the truth directs them.
2Jo 1:7
1:7 {3} For many deceivers
are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the
flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
(3) Antichrists fighting
against the person and office of Christ had already crept into the Church,
in the time of the apostles.
2Jo 1:8
1:8 {4} {e} Look to
yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we
receive a full reward.
(4) He that makes shipwreck
of doctrine, loses all.
(e) Beware, and take good heed.
2Jo 1:10
1:10 {5} If there come any
unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into [your] house,
neither bid him God speed:
