1 JOHN 1:3 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.”
That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ — the proclamation (apaggellō) aims at drawing readers into community (koinōnia). The fellowship encompasses both horizontal (you with us) and vertical (us with Father and Son) dimensions. Communion with God is constitutive of the church's identity.
Church Fathers on 1 John 1:3
“And we have seen and are witnesses.” 1 John 1:2 Perhaps some of the brethren who are not acquainted with the Greek do not know what the word “witnesses” is in Greek: and yet it is a term much used by all, and had in religious reverence; for what in our tongue we call “witnesses,” in Greek are “martyrs.” Now where is the man that has not heard of martyrs, or where the Christian in whose mouth the name of martyrs dwells not every day and would that it so dwelt in the heart…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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