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These epistles represent the singular voice of an extraordinary theologian. John, the last living apostle, writes to his “children.” For decades he has served as the elder father of the house churches of Asia Minor, but during his exile, false teaching has persuaded some to abandon the faith and the life in the community of the beloved. At least one church’s leader has presumed to advance his own...

subunit 1 (3:1–6) to “not knowing”234 speaks in as broad a sense as possible of the incomprehension of the “world” (see 2:2 and 2:15–17).235 “He was in the world; and the world came into being through him; and yet, the world did not know him” (Jn 1:10).236 Once more, “world” is a term “used here in its classical Johannine sense as the realm of unbelief hostile to the community.”237 Because it did not know him. “The world is proud of its knowledge, but the real things worth knowing it does not know.”238
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