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“John evidently loves the people committed to his care,” says John Stott in the preface to this commentary on 1, 2 and 3 John. “They are his ‘dear children,’ his ‘dear friends.’ He longs to protect them from both error and evil and to see them firmly established in faith, love and holiness. He has no new doctrine for them. On the contrary, he appeals to them to remember what they already know,...

clause what we have seen and heard before we finally reach the main verb, we proclaim to you. The rest of verse 3, and verse 4, describe the purposes, immediate and ultimate, of the apostolic proclamation, namely, so that you also may have fellowship with us and to make our joy complete. In brief, therefore, and omitting the parenthesis of verse 2, the sentence might be paraphrased: ‘We proclaim to you, concerning the word of life, what was from the beginning, which we have seen, heard and touched,
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