SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:10
¶ El que cree en el Hijo de Dios, tiene el testimonio de Dios en sí mismo; el que no cree a Dios, ha hecho mentiroso a Dios, porque no ha creído en el testimonio que Dios ha testificado de su Hijo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 John 5:10
Verse 10. He that believeth on the Son of God] This is God's witness to a truth, the most important and interesting to mankind. God has witnessed that whosoever believeth on his Son shall be saved, and have everlasting life; and shall have the witness of it in himself, the Spirit bearing witness with his spirit that he is a child of God. To know, to feel his sin forgiven, to have the testimony of this in the heart from the Holy Spirit himself, is the privilege of every true believer in Christ.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. He that believeth on the Son of God , &c.] As a divine person who came in the flesh, and obeyed the law, and brought in everlasting righteousness, and obtained life and salvation for men: he that with the heart believes in him for righteousness, and eternal life, he being the Son of God, truly and properly God, and so able to save all that believe in him, hath the witness in himself ; of the need he stands in of Christ, and of the suitableness, fulness, and excellency of him; the Spirit of God enlightening him into the impurity of his nature, his impotence to do anything spiritually good, his incapacity to atone for sin, and the insufficiency of his righteousness to justify him before God; and convincing him that nothing but the blood of the Son of God can cleanse him from sin, and only his sacrifice can expiate it, and his righteousness justify him from it, and that without him he can do nothing; testifying also to the efficacy of his blood, the completeness of his sacrifice and satisfaction, the excellency of his righteousness, and the energy of his grace and strength: so he comes to have such a witness in himself, that if ten thousand arguments were ever so artfully formed, in favour of the purity of human nature, the power of man's free will, and the sufficiency of his righteousness, and against the sacrifice and righteousness of Christ, the dignity of his person, as the Son of God, which gives virtue to his blood, sacrifice, and righteousness, they would all signify nothing to him, he would be proof against them. And such an one very readily receives into him the testimony God gives of his Son, of the glory and excellency of his person, and retains it in him. The Alexandrian copy and the Vulgate Latin version read, hath the witness of God in him; to which the Ethiopic, version agrees, and confirm the last observation: he that believeth not God ; does not receive his testimony concerning his Son: the Alexandrian copy, and two of Stephens's, and the Vulgate Latin version read, he that believeth not the Son; and the Ethiopic version, his Son; and the Arabic version, the Son of God; and so is a direct antithesis to the phrase in the former clause of the verse: hath made him a liar ; not the Son, but God, as the Arabic version renders it, hath made God himself a liar; who is the God, of truth, and cannot lie; it is impossible he should; and as nothing can be, more contumelious and reproachful to the being and nature of God, so nothing can more fully expose and aggravate the sin of unbelief, with respect to Christ, as the Son of God: because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son ; at the times and places before observed.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 9-12 - Nothing can be more absurd than the conduct of those who doubt as to the truth of Christianity, while in the common affairs of life they d not hesitate to proceed on human testimony, and would deem any one ou of his senses who declined to do so. The real Christian has seen his guilt and misery, and his need of such a Saviour. He has seen the suitableness of such a Saviour to all his spiritual wants an circumstances. He has found and felt the power of the word and doctrin of Christ, humbling, healing, quickening, and comforting his soul. He has a new disposition, and new delights, and is not the man that he formerly was. Yet he finds still a conflict with himself, with sin with the flesh, the world, and wicked powers. But he finds suc strength from faith in Christ, that he can overcome the world, an travel on towards a better. Such assurance has the gospel believer: he has a witness in himself, which puts the matter out of doubt with him except in hours of darkness or conflict; but he cannot be argued out of his belief in the leading truths of the gospel. Here is what makes the unbeliever's sin so awful; the sin of unbelief. He gives God the lie because he believes not the record that God gave of his Son. It is in vain for a man to plead that he believes the testimony of God in othe things, while he rejects it in this. He that refuses to trust an honour Christ as the Son of God, who disdains to submit to his teachin as Prophet, to rely on his atonement and intercession as High Priest or to obey him as King, is dead in sin, under condemnation; nor wil any outward morality, learning, forms, notions, or confidences avai him.
Greek Textus Receptus
ο 3588 πιστευων 4100 5723 εις 1519 τον 3588 υιον 5207 του 3588 θεου 2316 εχει 2192 5719 την 3588 μαρτυριαν 3141 εν 1722 εαυτω 1438 ο 3588 μη 3361 πιστευων 4100 5723 τω 3588 θεω 2316 ψευστην 5583 πεποιηκεν 4160 5758 αυτον 846 οτι 3754 ου 3756 πεπιστευκεν 4100 5758 εις 1519 την 3588 μαρτυριαν 3141 ην 3739 μεμαρτυρηκεν 3140 5758 ο 3588 θεος 2316 περι 4012 του 3588 υιου 5207 αυτου 846
Vincent's NT Word Studies
10. On the Son of God. Faith in the person of Christ, not merely in the fact that Jesus is the Son of God.
God. Also personal. To believe God, is to believe the message which comes from Him. See on John i. 12.
Hath made - hath believed (prpoihken - pepisteuken). The perfect tense marks the two results expressed by the verbs as connected with a past act. The act perpetuates itself in the present condition of the unbeliever.
Believed on the witness (pepisteuken eiv thn marturian). The phrase occurs only here. See on John i. 12. In one other case to believe on is used with an object not directly personal, pisteuete eijv to fwv; but the reference is clearly to the personal Christ as the Light of the World (John viii. 12).
