order; and throughout the Epistle St John assumes the reality of this inner fellowship among those whom he addresses, and he bases his arguments upon it. Compare 1 Pet. 4:8 τὴν εἰς ἑαυτοὺς ἀγάπην; id. 10 εἰς ἑαυτοὺς αὐτὸ διακονοῦντες; Eph. 4:32; Col. 3:13 χαριζόμενοι ἑαυτοῖς; Col. 3:16 νουθετοῦντες ἑαυτούς. 16. Ἐάν τις ἴδῃ …] If any one see … The duty, the instinct, is universal in the Christian Society. At the same time the character of the sin towards which the duty is exercised