Teks -- 2 John 1:7 (NET)

1:7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

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Robertson: 2Jo 1:7 - Deceivers

Deceivers ( planoi ).

Late adjective (Diodorus, Josephus) meaning wandering, roving (1Ti 4:1). As a substantive in N.T. of Jesus (Mat 27:63), of Paul (2Co 6:8), and here. See the verb (tōn planontōn humās ) in 1Jo 2:26 of the Gnostic deceivers as here and also of Jesus (Joh 7:12). Cf. 1Jo 1:8.

Robertson: 2Jo 1:7 - Are gone forth

Are gone forth ( exēlthan , alpha ending).

Second aorist active indicative of exerchomai , perhaps an allusion to the crisis when they left the churches (1Jo 2:19, same form).

Robertson: 2Jo 1:7 - Even they that confess not

Even they that confess not ( hoi mē homologountes ).

"The ones not confessing"(mē regular negative with the participle). The articular participle describes the deceivers (planoi ).

Robertson: 2Jo 1:7 - That Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh

That Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh ( Iēsoun Christon erchomenon en sarki ).

"Jesus Christ coming in the flesh."Present middle participle of erchomai treating the Incarnation as a continuing fact which the Docetic Gnostics flatly denied. In 1Jo 4:2 we have elēluthota (perfect active participle) in this same construction with homologeō , because there the reference is to the definite historical fact of the Incarnation. There is no allusion here to the second coming of Christ.

Robertson: 2Jo 1:7 - This

This ( houtos ).

See 1Jo 2:18, 1Jo 2:22; 1Jo 5:6, 1Jo 5:20.

Robertson: 2Jo 1:7 - The deceiver and the antichrist

The deceiver and the antichrist ( ho planos kai ho antichristos ).

Article with each word, as in Rev 1:17, to bring out sharply each separate phrase, though one individual is referred to. The one par excellence in popular expectation (1Jo 2:22), though many in reality (1Jo 2:18; 3Jo 1:7).

Vincent: 2Jo 1:7 - Deceivers

Deceivers ( πλάνοι )

See on we deceive ourselves , 1Jo 1:8.

Vincent: 2Jo 1:7 - Are entered into

Are entered into ( ἐξῆλθαν εἰς )

Rev., are gone forth into . The A.V. follows the reading εἰσῆλθον entered into . The tense is the aorist, strictly rendered, went forth . It may indicate a particular crisis, at which they went forth from the Christian society.

Vincent: 2Jo 1:7 - Who confess not

Who confess not ( οἱ μὴ ὁμολογοῦντες )

The article with the participle describes the character of this class of deceivers, and does not merely assert a definite fact concerning them. Compare Mar 15:41, " other women which came up with Him" (αἱ συνσνσβᾶσαι ). Confess . See on Mat 7:23; see on Mat 10:32.

Vincent: 2Jo 1:7 - Is come

Is come ( ἐρχόμενον )

Wrong. The verb is in the present participle, coming , which describes the manhood of Christ as still being manifested . See on 1Jo 3:5. In 1Jo 4:2 we have the manifestation treated as a past fact by the perfect tense, ἐληλυθο.τα has come . Rev., that Jesus Christ cometh . So in 1Th 1:10, τῆς ὀργῆς τῆς ἐρχομένης is the wrath which is coming ; which has already begun its movement and is advancing: not merely, as A.V., the wrath to come , which makes it wholly a future event. See on lingereth , 2Pe 2:3.

Vincent: 2Jo 1:7 - An antichrist

An antichrist ( ὁ ἀντίχριστος )

Rev, rendering the definite article, the antichrist . See on 1Jo 2:18.

Wesley: 2Jo 1:7 - Carefully keep what ye have heard from the beginning, for many seducers are entered into the world, who confess not Jesus Christ that came in the flesh

Who disbelieve either his prophetic, or priestly, or kingly office.

Wesley: 2Jo 1:7 - Whosoever does this is the seducer

From God.

Wesley: 2Jo 1:7 - And the antichrist

Fighting against Christ.

JFB: 2Jo 1:7

As love and truth go hand in hand (2Jo 1:3-4), he feels it needful to give warning against teachers of untruth.

JFB: 2Jo 1:7 - For

Giving the reason why he dwelt on truth and on love, which manifests itself in keeping God's commandments (2Jo 1:6).

JFB: 2Jo 1:7 - many

(1Jo 2:18; 1Jo 4:1).

JFB: 2Jo 1:7 - are entered

The oldest manuscripts read, "have gone forth," namely, from us.

JFB: 2Jo 1:7 - confess not . . . Jesus . . . in the flesh

The token of Antichrist.

JFB: 2Jo 1:7 - is come

Greek, "coming." He who denies Christ's coming in the flesh, denies the possibility of the incarnation; he who denies that he has come, denies its actuality. They denied the possibility of a Messiah's appearing, or coming, in the flesh [NEANDER]. I think the Greek present participle implies both the first and the second advent of Christ. He is often elsewhere called the Coming One (Greek), Mat 11:3; Heb 10:37. The denial of the reality of His manifestation in the flesh, at His first coming, and of His personal advent again, constitutes Antichrist. "The world turns away from God and Christ, busily intent upon its own husks; but to OPPOSE God and Christ is of the leaven of Satan" [BENGEL].

JFB: 2Jo 1:7 - This is a, &c.

Greek, "This (such a one as has been just described) is the deceiver and the Antichrist." The many who in a degree fulfil the character, are forerunners of the final personal Antichrist, who shall concentrate in himself all the features of previous Antichristian systems.

Clarke: 2Jo 1:7 - For many deceivers, etc.

For many deceivers, etc. - Of these he had spoken before, see 1Jo 4:1, etc. And these appear to have been Gnostics, for they denied that Jesus was come in the flesh. And this doctrine, so essential to salvation, none could deny but a deceiver and an antichrist. Instead of εισηλθον are entered in, many excellent MSS. and versions have εξηλθον, are gone out. The sense is nearly the same.

Defender: 2Jo 1:7 - entered

This means, literally, "gone forth" into the world, evidently from the domain of Satan, seeking to undermine and destroy any true church.

Defender: 2Jo 1:7 - in the flesh

This is the specific test by which to distinguish true teachers from false teachers (1Jo 4:1-3). Actually, the verb "is come" could be rendered "is coming." That is, Jesus Christ is coming back to this world, and it will again be "in the flesh," but His body is now made of glorified and immortal flesh.

Defender: 2Jo 1:7 - deceiver and an antichrist

Literally, "the deceiver and the antichrist." This is, indeed, the doctrine taught by Satan and his coming Antichrist, but already there are "many antichrists" (1Jo 2:18), as well as "many deceivers" that have "entered into the world.""

TSK: 2Jo 1:7 - many // who // This is

many : 2Pe 2:1-3; 1Jo 2:18-22, 1Jo 4:1

who : Joh 1:14; 1Ti 3:16; 1Jo 4:2; Rev 12:9, Rev 13:14

This is : 1Jo 2:22, 1Jo 4:3

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Poole: 2Jo 1:7

See 1Jo 2:18,22 4:3 .

Haydock: 2Jo 1:7 - Many seducers are gone out into the world

Many seducers are gone out into the world; antichrists, who confess not Christ to have come in the flesh. These were the disciples of Simon, the Cerinthians, Ebionites, &c. See 1 John ii. 18. (Witham)

Gill: 2Jo 1:7 - For many deceivers are entered into the world // who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh // This is a deceiver and an antichrist

For many deceivers are entered into the world,.... By whom are meant false teachers, who are described by their quality, "deceivers", deceitful workers, pretending to be ministers of Christ, to have a: value for truth, a love for souls, and a view to the glory of God, but lie in wait to deceive, and handle the word of God deceitfully; and by their quantity or number, "many", and so likely to do much mischief; and by the place where they were, they were "entered into the world"; or "gone out into the world", as the Alexandrian copy and some others, and the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions read; See Gill on 1Jo 4:1; and by their tenet,

who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh; these were not the Jews who denied that Jesus was the Christ, though they would not allow that Christ was come in the flesh; but these were some who bore the Christian name, and professed to believe in Jesus Christ, but would not own that he was really incarnate, or assumed a true human nature, only in appearance; and denied that he took true and real flesh of the virgin, but only seemed to do so; and these are confuted by the apostle, 1Jo 1:1; and upon everyone of these he justly fixes the following character.

This is a deceiver and an antichrist; one of the deceivers that were come into the world, and one of the antichrists that were already in it; and who were the forerunners of the man of sin, and in whom the mystery of iniquity already began to work; for antichrist does not design anyone particular individual person, but a set of men, that are contrary to Christ, and opposers of him.