not that any one teach you. John has no intention of discontinuing further teaching for believers since they possess the Holy Spirit; otherwise there would be no need for this letter he is writing. What he means is that believers have no need for the pretended high illumination of the Gnostics. These heretics claimed a knowledge above and beyond that which the Christians had already received. John’s answer is that they have “no need for such teaching as their false teachers proposed to them.”74 Any