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.

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