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“Throughout the various periods of the Christian era,” writes D. Edmond Hiebert in the preface to this commentary, “devout believers have always cherished the Johannine Epistles as a priceless portion of the New Testament. The grand simplicity of their contents have unfailingly nurtured the faith and stimulated the life of the humblest believer, while the profound depths of their teachings have...

thinks that this prohibition “suggests that the readers had shown a tendency to give credence to the false teachers.”4 It is quite possible that some of the readers had been prone uncritically to accept the claims of these spirits speaking through the false teachers. But it seems unwarranted to assume that John was now censuring his readers by commanding them to stop the practice. More probably the present imperative with the negative states a standing prohibition without implying that the action
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