1 JOHN 2:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.”
I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name's sake — the teknai (little children) are addressed because they possess the fundamental good of forgiveness. The forgiveness is established: it rests on Christ's name (onoma), his whole redemptive person and work. Assurance (perfect tense aphiēmi) anchors all subsequent exhortation.
Church Fathers on 1 John 2:12
All things that are read from the Holy Scriptures in order to our instruction and salvation, it behooves us to hear with earnest heed. Yet most of all must those things be commended to our memory, which are of most force against heretics; whose insidious designs cease not to circumvent all that are weaker and more negligent. Remember that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ both died for us, and rose again; died, to wit, for our offenses, rose again for our justification.…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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