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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,...

God’ (5:5), is now further and more fully described, particularly with regard to his mission on earth. This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. Various interpretations have been given to these phrases, which Plummer calls the ‘most perplexing’ in the letter. There can be little doubt that John was using phraseology which was already familiar to his readers, either through his own teaching or through that of the false teachers,
Pages 177–178
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