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The aim of A. T. Robertson’s classic Studies in the New Testament is to make the New Testament more intelligible and more easily taught to others. The book is not meant for technical scholars or students in theological seminaries. Instead, Robertson writes to the average teacher in the Sunday school, the adult Bible class, boys and girls in the high schools, those in their first year or so in...

God. The Docetic Gnostics denied that Jesus Christ came in the flesh (4:2f). The dominant note in this Epistle is that of reality. John could not brook the shallow pretentiousness of the Gnostics, who claimed special initiation into divine mysteries and peculiar familiarity with God and flippantly said, “I know him” (2:4), and yet hated their brothers and walked in all manner of evil. They talked loudly of the light and walked in darkness. They are liars, says John with all bluntness. The easy-going