SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:11
Y este es el testimonio, que Dios nos ha dado vida eterna; y esta vida est en su Hijo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 John 5:11
Verse 11. This is the record] The great truth to which the Spirit, the water, and the blood bear testimony. God hath given us eternal life - a right to endless glory, and a meetness for it. And this life is in his Son; it comes by and through him; he is its author and its purchaser; it is only in and through HIM. No other scheme of salvation can be effectual; God has provided none other, and in such a case a man's invention must be vain.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 11. And this is the record , &c.] The sum and substance of it, with respect to the person of Christ, and the security of salvation in him, who is the true God, and eternal life: that God hath given to us eternal life ; which is a life of glory and happiness hereafter; in the present state is unseen, but will in the world to come be a life of vision, free from all the sorrows and imperfections of this; and will be of the utmost perfection and pleasure, and for ever. This is a pure free grace gift of God the Father, proceeding from his sovereigns good will and pleasure, and which he gives to all his chosen ones, for they are ordained unto eternal life; to as many as he has given to his Son; to all that are redeemed by his blood, and are brought to believe in him: to these he gave it in his Son before the world began; and to the same in time he gives the right unto it, the meetness for it, and the pledge and earnest of it; and will hereafter give them the thing itself, the whole of it, to be possessed and enjoyed by them in person, to all eternity. And this life is in his Son : not only the purpose and promise of it, but that itself; Christ asked it of his Father in the covenant of peace, and he gave it to him, that he might have it in himself for all his people; and here it is safe and secure, it is hid with Christ in God, it is bound up in the bundle of life with him; and because he lives, this life will never be lost, or they come short of it. Ver. 12. He that hath the Son , &c.] Has a spiritual and experimental knowledge of him, true faith in him; who has him dwelling in his heart, and living in him: hath life : not only spiritual life, being quickened by him, and living by faith on him, but eternal life; the knowledge he has of him is eternal life; he has it in faith and hope, and has a right unto it, and the earnest of it, as well as has it in Christ his representative, whom he has, and in whom this life is: [and] he that hath not the Son of God ; no knowledge of him, nor faith in him, nor enjoyment of him: hath not life ; he is dead in sin, he is alienated from the life of God, has no title to eternal life, nor meetness for it, nor shall enjoy it, but shall die the second death.
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
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Vincent's NT Word Studies
11. Hath given (edwken). The aorist tense, gave. So Rev. The reference is to the historic fact of the gift. So 1 John iii. 23: "We should love one another as He gave (edwken) us commandment." Ver. xxiv. "We know that He abideth in us by the Spirit which He gave (edwken) us." On the other hand, 1 John iii. 1: "Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed (dedwken) upon us." The gift of love abides in the fact that we are now children of God (ver. 2).
Eternal life (zwhn aiwnion). Compare the phrase thn zwhn thn aijwnion the life, the eternal life (i. 2), and hJ aijwniov zwh the eternal life (John xvii. 3). For the distinction between the phrases see on i. 2. The phrase here, without either article, merely defines the character of the life.
