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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

earth,” as the habitation of mankind, and the place of man’s organization of creation. It is the place where God is at work, sending his Son (1 John 4:9) and where men should serve God (4:17), but where evil forces may be at work too (4:1, 3; 2 John 1:7). (3) In several cases the world is used with a personal reference, meaning mankind as a whole, as in 1 John 2:2; 4:14, cp. also John 3:16. (4) Used metaphorically the word refers to man’s organization of creation, or to his way of life with its possessions,
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