SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:27
Y la Uncin que vosotros habis recibido de l, permanece en vosotros; y no tenis necesidad que ninguno os ensee; mas como la Uncin misma os ensea de todas cosas, y es verdadera, y no es mentira, así como os ha enseado, permaneced en l.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 John 2:27
Verse 27. But the anointing which ye have received] That ointment, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, mentioned ver. 20, where see the note. Ye need not that any man teach you] The Gnostics, who pretended to the highest illumination, could bring no proof that they were divinely taught, nor had they any thing in their teaching worthy the acceptance of the meanest Christian; therefore they had no need of that, nor of any other teaching but that which the same anointing teacheth, the same Spirit from whom they had already received the light of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ. Whatever that taught, they needed; and whatever those taught whose teaching was according to this Spirit, they needed. St. John does not say that those who had once received the teaching of the Divine Spirit had no farther need of the ministry of the Gospel; no, but he says they had no need of such teaching as their false teachers proposed to them; nor of any other teaching that was different from that anointing, i.e. the teaching of the Spirit of God. No man, howsoever holy, wise, or pure, can ever be in such a state as to have no need of the Gospel ministry: they who think so give the highest proof that they have never yet learned of Christ or his Spirit.
And is truth] Because it is the Spirit of truth John xvi. 13.
And is no lie] It has nothing like the fables of the Gnostics. It can neither deceive, nor be deceived.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 27. But the anointing which ye have received of him , &c.] The Spirit, and the grace of the Spirit, which they had received out of the fulness of grace which is in Christ; and is compared to oil or ointment; (see Gill on 1 John 2:20); for Christ, the anointed, is the fountain of it all, and it is had from him in a way of giving and receiving. So the second Sephira, or number in the Jews' Cabalistic tree, which is wisdom, has for one of its surnames, the fountain of the oil of unction this abideth in you ; the Syriac and Arabic versions render it, if it abideth, which spoils the text, for the words are not conditional, but affirmative: grace is an internal thing, it is oil in the vessel of the heart, and where it once is, it abides; as does every grace of the Spirit, as faith, hope, love, and every other: grace can never be taken away; God will not take it away, where he has once bestowed it, and men and devils cannot; it can never be lost as to the principle and being of it; it is an incorruptible seed, and a living principle, which can never be destroyed, notwithstanding all the corruptions in a man's hart, the pollutions of the world, and the temptations of Satan: and ye need not that any man teach you ; not that they were perfect in knowledge, for no man is absolutely, only comparatively so, in this life; or that they needed not, and were above and exempt from the instructions of Christ's faithful servants; for John himself taught them, and to teach and instruct them was the end of his writing this epistle to them; but the sense is either that they needed not the teachings of these men before mentioned, the antichrists, liars, and seducers, being better taught, and having an unction by which they knew all things; or they needed not to be taught as if they were babes in Christ, as unskilful in the word of righteousness, but so as to increase in spiritual knowledge, and go on to perfection, and be established in the present truths, at least so as to be put in remembrance of them; or rather they needed not, nor were they to regard any mere human revelation and doctrine, for the whole Gospel was come by Jesus Christ, and no other is to be expected or received by men, nor any doctrine but what is according to the revelation of Christ; wherefore saints under the Gospel dispensation are taught of God by his Spirit, according to the word of truth, and by the ministry of it, and have no need of learning every man from his neighbour, or from his brother, any separate revelation; so that this passage does not militate against the external ministry of the Gospel, or human teachings according to that perfect rule and declaration of the whole mind and will of God by Christ under the Gospel dispensation: but as the same anointing . The Vulgate Latin and Arabic versions read, his anointing; that is, God's or Christ's; and so the Syriac version renders it, that unction which is of God; meaning the same as before: the Ethiopic version renders it, his Spirit, which, though not a true version, is no improper or impertinent sense of the phrase: and this teacheth you of all things ; truths and doctrines necessary to salvation, as in ( 1 John 2:20); and is truth, and is no lie ; or true and not a liar; which is a just character of the spirit of truth, in opposition to the spirit of error; and holds good of the grace of the Spirit, which is truth in the inward parts, and is genuine and sincere: and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him ; in Christ, from whom they received this anointing, (see Gill on 1 John 2:24); or in the anointing itself, in the grace of the Spirit, in which they stood. Some versions read in the imperative, abide in him, or it, as in ( 1 John 2:28).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 24-29 - The truth of Christ, abiding in us, is a means to sever from sin, an unites us to the Son of God, Joh 15:3, 4. What value should we put upo gospel truth! Thereby the promise of eternal life is made sure. The promise God makes, is suitable to his own greatness, power, an goodness; it is eternal life. The Spirit of truth will not lie; and he teaches all things in the present dispensation, all things necessary to our knowledge of God in Christ, and their glory in the gospel. The apostle repeats the kind words, "little children;" which denotes his affection. He would persuade by love. Gospel privileges oblige to gospel duties; and those anointed by the Lord Jesus abide with him. The new spiritual nature is from the Lord Christ. He that is constant to the practice of religion in trying times, shows that he is born from above, from the Lord Christ. Then, let us beware of holding the trut in unrighteousness, remembering that those only are born of God, wh bear his holy image, and walk in his most righteous ways __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
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