SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:22
¿Quin es mentiroso, sino el que niega que Jess es el Cristo? Este tal es anticristo, que niega al Padre y al Hijo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 John 2:22
Verse 22. Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ?] Here we see some of the false doctrines which were then propagated in the world. There were certain persons who, while they acknowledged Jesus to be a Divine teacher, denied him to be the Christ, i.e. the MESSIAH. He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son,] He is antichrist who denies the supernatural and miraculous birth of Jesus Christ, who denies Jesus to be the Son of God, and who denies God to be the Father of the Lord Jesus; thus he denies the Father and the Son. The Jews in general, and the Gnostics in particular, denied the miraculous conception of Jesus; with both he was accounted no more than a common man, the son of Joseph and Mary. But the Gnostics held that a Divine person, AEon, or angelical being, dwelt in him; but all things else relative to his miraculous generation and Divinity they rejected. These were antichrists, who denied Jesus to be the Christ.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 18-23 - Every man is an antichrist, who denies the Person, or any of the offices of Christ; and in denying the Son, he denies the Father also and has no part in his favour while he rejects his great salvation. Le this prophecy that seducers would rise in the Christian world, keep u from being seduced. The church knows not well who are its true members and who are not, but thus true Christians were proved, and rendere more watchful and humble. True Christians are anointed ones; their names expresses this: they are anointed with grace, with gifts an spiritual privileges, by the Holy Spirit of grace. The great and mos hurtful lies that the father of lies spreads in the world, usually ar falsehoods and errors relating to the person of Christ. The unctio from the Holy One, alone can keep us from delusions. While we judg favourably of all who trust in Christ as the Divine Saviour, and obe his word, and seek to live in union with them, let us pity and pray for those who deny the Godhead of Christ, or his atonement, and the new-creating work of the Holy Ghost. Let us protest against suc antichristian doctrine, and keep from them as much as we may.
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Vincent's NT Word Studies
22. A liar (o yeusthv). Rev., correctly, "the liar." For a similar interrogative phrase see ch. v. 5. It marks the lively feeling with which the apostle writes. By the definite article, the liar, the lie is set forth in its concrete personality: the one who impersonates all that is false, as antichrist represents every form of hostility and opposition to Christ. The denial that Jesus is the Christ is the representative falsehood. He that denies is the representative liar.He that denieth (o arnoumenov). The article with the participle denotes the habitual denial. Lit., the one denying, the one who habitually represents this attitude towards Christ. The words are aimed at the heresy of Cerinthus, a man of Jewish decent and educated at Alexandria. He denied the miraculous conception of Jesus, and taught that, after His baptism, the Christ descended upon Him in the form of a dove, and that He then announced the unknown Father and wrought miracles; but that, towards the end of His ministry, the Christ departed again from Jesus, and Jesus suffered and rose from the dead, while the Christ remained impassible (incapable of suffering) as a spiritual being.
The Father. The title the Father occurs always in its simple form in the Epistle. Never his or our Father, or the Father in heaven.
