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Plumbing the Depths of John's Epistles
The Epistles of John contain some of the sublimest
truths that true believers hold to. In it is “the high serenity of a mind
that lives in constant fellowship with the greatest thoughts and is
nourished at the eternal fountain-head; but also the fervent indignation and
vehement recoil of such a mind in contact with what is false and evil”, one
whose mind is dominated by God’s truth (R. Law, ISBE). First John has been
called “the most passionate” book in the New Testament written by the
“Apostle of Love”. It is full of antithesis and clear statements of
spiritual reality. “The absolute antagonism and incompatibility between the
Christian life and sin of whatsoever kind or degree is maintained with a
vehemence of utterance that verges at times upon the paradoxical (1 Jn 3:9;
5:18). So long as the church lays up this Epistle in its heart, it can never
lack a moral tonic of wholesome severity” (ibid).
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"Scripture quotations taken
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