1 JOHN 2:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him — the world (kosmos) represents the system of values organized against God: its desires, temptations, and idolatries. The either/or (either love God or world) permits no compromise. Worldly love and divine love are mutually exclusive affections.
Church Fathers on 1 John 2:15
“I write unto you, fathers.” 1 John 2:13 Why first sons? “Because your sins are forgiven you through His name,” and you are regenerated into a new life, therefore sons. Why fathers? “Because you have known Him that is from the beginning:” for the beginning has relation unto fatherhood. Christ new in flesh, but ancient in Godhead. How ancient think we? How many years old? Think we, of greater age than His mother? Assuredly of greater age than His mother, for “all things were…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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