Exploring the Epistles of John: An Expository Commentary
Overview
This commentary on the epistles of John provides pastors, Sunday school teachers, and students of Scripture with doctrinally sound interpretation that emphasizes the practical application of Bible truth. Working from the King James Version, John Phillips not only provides helpful commentary on the text, but also includes detailed outlines and numerous illustrations and quotations. Anyone wanting to explore the meaning of God’s Word in greater depth—for personal spiritual growth or as a resource for preaching and teaching—will welcome the guidance and insights of this respected series.
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“But a basic difference can be found between John’s gospel and his first epistle: the major emphasis in the gospel is on the essential deity of the Lord Jesus Christ; the major emphasis in the epistle is on the essential humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was God. He was man. He was both!” (1 John 1:1)
“‘and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.’ John then describes the Lord’s role in Creation. Here, in his epistle, when John refers to a ‘beginning,’ he wants us to envision One who had an eternal preexistence but who, at a specific moment in time, entered into human life on planet Earth. When any other baby is born, it marks the beginning of a new life. When Jesus was born, it signified something quite different; it marked the coming into this world of a person who had existed from all eternity. The Lord Jesus did not have a beginning. He was!” (1 John 1:1)
“His deity and His humanity were perfectly proportioned and balanced. He was ‘God manifest in flesh’ to such an extent that we can tell neither where His deity ends and His humanity begins nor where His humanity ends and His deity begins.” (1 John 1:1)
“The word used for ‘know’ here is ginōskō, and it suggests experiential knowledge rather than academic knowledge.” (1 John 2:3)
“Three major heresies had made inroads into the church when John wrote toward the end of the first century of the Christian era. The Ebionites denied the deity of Christ—to them He was just another created being. The Docetists denied the humanity of Christ. Believing that He had not come in the flesh, they taught that He was some kind of phantom who had no corporeal being. The Cerinthians denied the union of the two natures of Christ (the human and the divine). Their notion was that ‘the Christ’ descended upon the man, Jesus, at the time of His baptism and departed from Him at the time of His crucifixion. John indignantly denied all three heresies.” (source)
- Title: Exploring the Epistles of John: An Expository Commentary
- Author: John Phillips
- Series: The John Phillips Commentary Series
- Publisher: Kregel
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. N.T. 1 John › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. 2 John › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. 3 John › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:JPCS83JN101
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T17:17:16Z