A Handbook on the Third Letter of John (Biblia.com)

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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...

The next part of the verse mentions two other witnesses who are speaking well of Demetrius, namely, the truth and the writer himself. This is done to complete the number of three witnesses, in accordance with the rule of Jewish law quoted in the note on 1 John 5:8. From the truth. The noun is used here in the sense of “truthful behavior,” “a life in accordance with God’s will,” see 1 John 1:6, and compare 2 John 1:4 and 3 John 1:3. The phrase goes with the preceding verb. In Greek it is possible

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