The Apostle was in the foregoing verses speaking of love as a sure sign of sincerity and our acceptance with God, beginning with the eighteenth verse, and he sums up the argument thus in the last verse: “And hereby do we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit that [he] hath given us.” Again, in the sixteenth verse of this fourth chapter the Apostle tells us that “God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” Which confirms not only that the divine nature subsists in