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See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. See also: John 1:12Galatians 3:262 Corinthians 6:18Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him just as he is. See also: Philippians 3:21Colossians 3:41 Corinthians 13:12Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure. See also: 2 Corinthians 7:11 John 2:62 Peter 3:14Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness. See also: 1 John 5:17Romans 3:20Romans 4:15You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him. See also: 2 Corinthians 5:21Hebrews 9:281 Peter 2:24Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him. See also: 3 John 1:111 John 2:41 John 3:9Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. See also: 1 John 2:291 Peter 1:15-16Romans 2:13He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil. See also: Hebrews 2:14John 8:44Colossians 2:15Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God. See also: 1 John 5:181 Peter 1:23John 1:13In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother. See also: 1 John 4:83 John 1:11Luke 6:35For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another— See also: John 15:122 John 1:51 John 4:7unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous. See also: Hebrews 11:4Genesis 4:4-15Proverbs 29:27Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. See also: John 15:18-19John 17:14Luke 21:17We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death. See also: John 13:351 John 5:2John 5:24Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. See also: Matthew 5:21-22Proverbs 26:24-26Revelation 21:8By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. See also: 1 John 4:9-11Ephesians 5:2John 13:34But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him? See also: Hebrews 13:16Isaiah 58:7-10Deuteronomy 15:7-11My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth. See also: James 2:15-16Romans 12:91 Peter 1:22And by this we know that we are of the truth and persuade our hearts before him, See also: Hebrews 10:22Isaiah 32:171 John 3:21because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. See also: Psalms 139:1-4Jeremiah 17:10Hebrews 4:13Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God; See also: 1 John 2:28Hebrews 4:162 Corinthians 1:12so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. See also: John 15:7John 9:31Matthew 21:22This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded. See also: John 6:29John 13:341 Peter 1:22He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us. See also: 1 Corinthians 3:161 John 4:15-161 John 4:12-13
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)9 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
1 John 3:1
Ver. 1. Behold what manner of charity (or of love) the Father hath bestowed upon us. S. John had said in the last verse of the foregoing chap. that every one who doth justice, is born of him; i.e. is the son of God by adoption. But the world knoweth us not, nor esteems and values us as such: and no wonder, because they have not known, nor acknowledged, nor reverenced God as they ought. We indeed are the sons of God; we believe it, because God has assured us of it; but it hath not yet appeared what we shall be, (v. 2) to what glory or happiness we shall thereby be exalted hereafter, for neither the eye hath seen, nor the ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for those who love him. 1 Cor. ix. 2. We only know this, that his elect shall be like to him, because they shall see him as he is, when they shall enjoy him in heaven. Wi.
↑ 11 John 3:4
Ver. 4. Committeth also iniquity.[1] By the Greek text, iniquity is here taken for a transgression or prevarication of the law, which makes the sense clearer. Wi.
— Iniquity; (anomia) transgression of the law. Ch.
↑ 41 John 3:6
Ver. 6. Whosoever abideth in him, complying with his law, sinneth not; and whosoever sinneth, hath not seen him, nor known him; that is, with such a knowledge as is joined with love. Wi. — Sinneth not; viz. mortally. See C. i. 8.
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↑ 61 John 3:8
Ver. 8. The devil sinneth from the beginning: not that he was created in sin, but sined soon after he was created. Wi.
↑ 81 John 3:9
Ver. 9. Doth not commit sin. That is, as long as he keepeth in himself this seed of grace, and this divine generation, by which he is born of God. But then he may fall from this happy state by the abuse of his free-will, as appears from Rom. xi. 20. 21. 22. 1 Cor. ix. 27. and x. 12. Phil. ii. 12. Apoc. iii. 11. Ch. — He cannot sin, because he is born of God. The meaning of this can be no more, than that he cannot sin as long as the seed of grace remaineth in him, and as long as he is the adoptive son of God. But it is evident he may fall from this happy condition, and from the grace of God, otherwise S. John would not so often in this epistle have exhorted them not to sin. Wi.
↑ 91 John 3:14–15
Ver. 14-15. We know that we have passed from death to life; i.e. from the death of sin to the life of grace: we know it by a moral certainty, when we experience in our heart a love of our neighbour. — He that loveth not God and his neighbour, abideth in death. He that hateth his brother with a mortal hatred, or to a considerable degree, is a murderer. Wi.
↑ 141 John 3:16
Ver. 16. The charity of God,[2] because he hath laid down his life for us. Jesus Christ, therefore, who laid down his life for us, was God. It is true at present the words of God are wanting in most Greek MSS.: yet the Prot. translation has them. Wi.
↑ 161 John 3:19–20
Ver. 19-20. And in his sight we shall persuade our hearts. That is, if we love God and our neighbour in deed, as he said before, we may rest satisfied in conscience that we follow the ways of truth, and may have a well-grounded confidence in God. — But if our hearts reprehend us, for not complying with this duty and precept of charity, God is still greater than our heart; i.e. he sees and knows the interior dispositions of our heart, even better than we know ourselves, and therefore we have more reason to fear him, especially when even our heart and conscience reprehend us. Wi.
↑ 191 John 3:24
Ver. 24. We know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
These words may be either referred to the body of the Church in general or to the apostles, or to every one in particular. It is certain that God gave his Spirit to his Church and to the apostles, by the coming of the Holy Ghost in a visible manner, and by the miraculous gifts bestowed upon the apostles; but every one in particular has only a moral certainty that he has the Spirit of God, and his sanctifying grace in his soul. Wi.
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[1] V. 4. Et peccatum est iniquitas, kai e amartia estin e anomia, transgressio.
[2] V. 16. Charitatem Dei, tou Theou: scarce in any MSS. nor read by S. Aug. in his commentary on this verse.
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↑ 24License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses