SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:23
Cualquiera que niega al Hijo, este tal tampoco tiene al Padre. Cualquiera que confiese al Hijo, tiene tambin al Padre.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 John 2:23
Verse 23. Whosoever denieth the Son] He who denies Jesus to be the Son of God, and consequently the Christ or Messiah, he hath not the Father - he can have no birth from above, he cannot be enrolled among the children of God, because none can be a child of God but by faith in Christ Jesus. He that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.] This clause is printed by our translators in Italics to show it to be of doubtful authority, as it was probably wanting in the chief of those MSS. which they consulted, as it was in Coverdale's Bible, printed 1535; Tindall's Text, printed 1548; and in all the early printed editions (which I have seen) previously to 1566; the Bible of Richard Cardmarden, printed in English at Rouen, where this clause is inserted in a different letter between brackets.
But that the clause is genuine, and should be restored to the text without any mark of spuriousness, as I have done in the text of this work, is evident from the authorities by which it is supported. It is found in ABC, and in between twenty and thirty others of the best authority; as also in both the Syriac, Erpen's Arabic, Coptic, Sahidic, Armenian, and Vulgate. It is also quoted as a part of the text by Origen, Meletius, Athanesius, both the Cyrils, Theophylact, Vigilius of Tapsum, Pelagius, Cerealis, Cassian; and in substance by Euthalius, Epiphanius, Cyprian, Hilary, Faustinus, Lucifer of Cagliari, Augustine, and Bede. It is wanting in the Arabic, in the Polyglot, in a MSS. in the Harleian library, and in some few others. It is doubtless genuine, and Griesbach has with propriety restored it to the text, from which it never should have been separated.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 23. Whosoever denieth the Son , &c.] Jesus Christ to be the true, proper, natural, essential, and eternal Son of God: the same hath not the Father ; or does not hold the Father; or believe the Father, as the Syriac version renders it; for there cannot be a father without a son; and he that honours not the Son, by owning him as such, honours not the Father; whatever reflects dishonour on the Son, reflects dishonour on the Father. If Christ is not truly and properly the Son of God, the Father is not truly and properly the Father of Christ; if Christ is only a Son in a figurative and metaphorical sense, the Father is only a Father in a figurative and metaphorical sense; if Christ is a Son only by office, then the Father is a Father only by office, which is monstrously stupid. Such an one does not hold the true doctrine of the Father, and does not appear to have true faith in him, true love unto him, or real interest in him, only by profession: [but he that acknowledgeth the Son, hath the Father also] : this clause is left out in many copies, and stands as a supplement in our version; but is in the Alexandrian copy, in four of Beza's manuscripts, and in some others; and in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions; and confirms and illustrates what is before said; for as he that denies the sonship of Christ cannot hold the paternity of God, so he that owns the sonship of Christ, the second Person, maintains the paternity of the first; for these two are correlates, and mutually put, or take away each other: no mention is made of the Spirit, because, as yet, no controversy had risen concerning him.
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.
Greek Textus Receptus
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Vincent's NT Word Studies
23. Hath not the Father (oude ton patera ecei). Properly, "hath not even the Father," though he professes to reverence the Father while rejecting the Son. Compare John viii. 42.
