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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,...

to their own ministry (Acts 13:46–47; cf. Acts 26:18, 23). The apostle Paul also wrote to the Corinthians of ‘the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ’, which had shone in their hearts (2 Cor. 4:6). The second use of light, namely to symbolize righteousness, is already plain in Isaiah 5:20, where the inhabitants of Judah are so morally perverse that they ‘call evil good and good evil … put darkness for light and light for darkness’. In the ethical instruction contained
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