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+Title: The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 69: 1 John
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 69***
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+THE HOLY BIBLE
+
+
+
+
+Translated from the Latin Vulgate
+
+
+Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,
+and Other Editions in Divers Languages
+
+
+THE OLD TESTAMENT
+First Published by the English College at Douay
+A.D. 1609 & 1610
+
+and
+
+THE NEW TESTAMENT
+First Published by the English College at Rheims
+A.D. 1582
+
+
+With Annotations
+
+
+The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with
+the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner
+A.D. 1749-1752
+
+
+
+
+
+THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE
+
+The same vein of divine love and charity towards our neighbour, which
+runs throughout the Gospel written by the beloved disciple and
+Evangelist, St. John, is found also in his Epistles. He confirms the two
+principal mysteries of faith: The mystery of the Trinity and the mystery
+of the incarnation of Jesus Christ the Son of God. The sublimity and
+excellence of the evangelical doctrine he declares: And this commandment
+we have from God, that he, who loveth God, love also his brother (chap.
+4,21). And again: For this is the charity of God, that we keep his
+commandments, and: His commandments are not heavy (chap. 5,3).  He shews
+how to distinguish the children of God from those of the devil: marks
+out those who should be called Antichrists: describes the turpitude and
+gravity of sin. Finally, he shews how the sinner may hope for pardon. It
+was written, according to Baronius' account, sixty-six years after our
+Lord's Ascension.
+
+
+1 John Chapter 1
+
+He declares what he has seen and heard of Christ who is the life
+eternal, to the end that we may have fellowship with God and all good
+through him. Yet so if we confess our sins.
+
+1:1. That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we
+have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and our hands have
+handled, of the word of life.
+
+1:2. For the life was manifested: and we have seen and do bear witness
+and declare unto you the life eternal, which was with the Father and
+hath appeared to us.
+
+1:3. That which we have seen and have heard, we declare unto you: that
+you also may have fellowship with us and our fellowship may be with the
+Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
+
+1:4. And these things we write to you, that you may rejoice and your joy
+may be full.
+
+1:5. And this is the declaration which we have heard from him and
+declare unto you: That God is light and in him there is no darkness.
+
+1:6. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we
+lie and do not the truth.
+
+1:7. But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light, we have
+fellowship one with another: And the blood of Jesus Christ his Son
+cleanseth us from all sin.
+
+1:8. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth
+is not in us.
+
+1:9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our
+sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.
+
+1:10. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar: and his
+word is not in us.
+
+1 John Chapter 2
+
+Christ is our advocate. We must keep his commandments and love one
+another. We must not love the world nor give ear to new teachers, but
+abide by the spirit of God in the church.
+
+2:1. My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not
+sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus
+Christ the just.  2:2. And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not
+for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.
+
+2:3. And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his
+commandments.
+
+We have known him, if we keep his commandments...  He speaks of that
+practical knowledge by love and affection, which can only be proved by
+our keeping his commandments; and without which we can not be said to
+know God as we should do.
+
+2:4. He who saith that he knoweth him and keepeth not his commandments
+is a liar: and the truth is not in him.
+
+2:5. But he that keepeth his word, in him in very deed the charity of
+God is perfected. And by this we know that we are in him.
+
+2:6. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as
+he walked.
+
+2:7. Dearly beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old
+commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the
+word which you have heard.
+
+2:8. Again a new commandment I write unto you: which thing is true both
+in him and in you, because the darkness is passed and the true light now
+shineth.
+
+A new commandment... Viz., the commandment of love, which was first
+given in the old law; but was renewed and extended by Christ.  See John
+13.34.
+
+2:9. He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in
+darkness even until now.
+
+2:10. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light: and there is no
+scandal in him.
+
+2:11. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in
+darkness and knoweth not whither he goeth: because the darkness hath
+blinded his eyes.
+
+2:12. I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven
+you for his name's sake.
+
+2:13. I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him who is from
+the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome
+the wicked one.
+
+2:14. I write unto you, babes, because you have known the Father. I
+write unto you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God
+abideth in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.
+
+2:15. Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any
+man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.
+
+2:16. For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and
+the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life, which is not of the
+Father but is of the world.
+
+2:17. And the world passeth away and the concupiscence thereof: but he
+that doth the will of God abideth for ever.
+
+2:18. Little children, it is the last hour: and as you have heard that
+Antichrist cometh, even now there are become many Antichrists: whereby
+we know that it is the last hour.
+
+It is the last hour... That is, it is the last age of the world.  Many
+Antichrists;... that is, many heretics, enemies of Christ and his
+church, and forerunners of the great Antichrist.
+
+2:19. They went out from us but they were not of us. For if they had
+been of us, they would no doubt have remained with us: but that they may
+be manifest, that they are not all of us.
+
+They were not of us... That is, they were not solid, steadfast, genuine
+Christians: otherwise they would have remained in the church.
+
+2:20. But you have the unction from the Holy One and know all things.
+
+The unction from the Holy One... That is, grace and wisdom from the Holy
+Ghost. Know all things... The true children of God's church, remaining
+in unity, under the guidance of their lawful pastors, partake of the
+grace of the Holy Ghost, promised to the church and her pastors; and
+have in the church all necessary knowledge and instruction; so as to
+have no need to seek it elsewhere, since it can be only found in that
+society of which they are members.
+
+2:21. I have not written to you as to them that know not the truth, but
+as to them that know it: and that no lie is of the truth.
+
+2:22. Who is a liar, but he who denieth that Jesus is the Christ?  This
+is Antichrist, who denieth the Father and the Son.
+
+2:23. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father. He that
+confesseth the Son hath the Father also.
+
+2:24. As for you, let that which you have heard from the beginning abide
+in you. If that abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning,
+you also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.
+
+2:25. And this is the promise which he hath promised us, life
+everlasting.
+
+2:26. These things have I written to you concerning them that seduce
+you.
+
+2:27. And as for you, let the unction, which you have received from him
+abide in you. And you have no need that any man teach you: but as his
+unction teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lie. And as it
+hath taught you, abide in him.
+
+You have no need, etc... You want not to be taught by any of these men,
+who, under pretence of imparting more knowledge to you, seek to seduce
+you (ver. 26), since you are sufficiently taught already, and have all
+knowledge and grace in the church, with the unction of the Holy Ghost;
+which these new teachers have no share in.
+
+2:28. And now, little children, abide in him, that when he shall appear
+we may have confidence and not be confounded by him at his coming.
+
+2:29. If you know that he is just, know ye, that every one also who doth
+justice is born of him.
+
+1 John Chapter 3
+
+Of the love of God to us. How we may distinguish the children of God and
+those of the devil. Of loving one another and of purity of conscience.
+
+3:1. Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us,
+that we should be called and should be the sons of God.  Therefore the
+world knoweth not us, because it knew not him.
+
+3:2. Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God: and it hath not yet
+appeared what we shall be. We know that when he shall appear we shall be
+like to him: because we shall see him as he is.
+
+3:3. And every one that hath this hope in him sanctifieth himself, as he
+also is holy.
+
+3:4. Whosoever committeth sin committeth also iniquity. And sin is
+iniquity.
+
+Iniquity... transgression of the law.
+
+3:5. And you know that he appeared to take away our sins: and in him
+there is no sin.
+
+3:6. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: and whosoever sinneth hath
+not seen him nor known him.
+
+Sinneth not... viz., mortally. See chap. 1.8.
+
+3:7. Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doth justice is
+just, even as he is just.
+
+3:8. He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from
+the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared, that he might
+destroy the works of the devil.
+
+3:9. Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth
+in him. And he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
+
+Committeth not sin... That is, as long as he keepeth in himself this
+seed of grace, and this divine generation, by which he is born of God.
+But then he may fall from this happy state, by the abuse of his free
+will, as appears from Rom. 11.20-22; Cor. 9.27; and 10.12; Phil. 2.12;
+Apoc. 3.11.
+
+3:10. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the
+devil. Whosoever is not just is not of God, or he that loveth not his
+brother.
+
+3:11. For this is the declaration which you have heard from the
+beginning, that you should love one another.
+
+3:12. Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother.
+And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and
+his brother's just.
+
+3:13. Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you.
+
+3:14. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love
+the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.
+
+3:15. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And you know that no
+murderer hath eternal life abiding in himself.
+
+3:16. In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid
+down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the
+brethren.
+
+3:17. He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his brother
+in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of
+God abide in him?
+
+3:18. My little children, let us not love in word nor in tongue, but in
+deed and in truth.
+
+3:19. In this we know that we are of the truth and in his sight shall
+persuade our hearts.
+
+3:20. For if our heart reprehend us, God is greater than our heart and
+knoweth all things.
+
+3:21. Dearly beloved, if our heart do not reprehend us, we have
+confidence towards God.
+
+3:22. And whatsoever we shall ask, we shall receive of him: because we
+keep his commandments and do those things which are pleasing in his
+sight.
+
+3:23. And this is his commandment: That we should believe in the name of
+his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as he hath given commandment
+unto us.
+
+3:24. And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in
+him. And in this we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit which he
+hath given us.
+
+1 John Chapter 4
+
+What spirits are of God, and what are not. We must love one another,
+because God has loved us.
+
+4:1. Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if
+they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
+
+Try the spirits... Viz., by examining whether their teaching be
+agreeable to the rule of the Catholic faith, and the doctrine of the
+church. For as he says, (ver. 6,) He that knoweth God, heareth us [the
+pastors of the church]. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the
+spirit of error.
+
+4:2. By this is the spirit of God known. Every spirit which confesseth
+that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
+
+Every spirit which confesseth, etc... Not that the confession of this
+point of faith alone, is, at all times, and in all cases, sufficient;
+but that with relation to that time, and for that part of the Christian
+doctrine, which was then particularly to be confessed, taught, and
+maintained against the heretics of those days, this was the most proper
+token, by which the true teachers might be distinguished form the false.
+
+4:3. And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus is not of God. And this is
+Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh: and he is now already
+in the world.
+
+That dissolveth Jesus... Viz., either by denying his humanity, or his
+divinity. He is now already in the world... Not in his person, but in
+his spirit, and in his precursors.
+
+4:4. You are of God, little children, and have overcome him.  Because
+greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
+
+4:5. They are of the world. Therefore of the world they speak: and the
+world heareth them.
+
+4:6. We are of God. He that knoweth God heareth us. He that is not of
+God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit
+of error.
+
+4:7. Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for charity is of God. And
+every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.
+
+4:8. He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is charity.
+
+4:9. By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God
+hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him.
+
+4:10. In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he
+hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.
+
+4:11. My dearest, if God hath so loved us, we also ought to love one
+another.
+
+4:12. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God
+abideth in us: and his charity is perfected in us.
+
+4:13. In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us: because he
+hath given us of his spirit.
+
+4:14. And we have seen and do testify that the Father hath sent his Son
+to be the Saviour of the world.
+
+4:15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth
+in him, and he in God.
+
+4:16. And we have known and have believed the charity which God hath to
+us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity abideth in God, and
+God in him.
+
+4:17. In this is the charity of God perfected with us, that we may have
+confidence in the day of judgment: because as he is, we also are in this
+world.
+
+4:18. Fear is not in charity: but perfect charity casteth out fear,
+because fear hath sin. And he that feareth is not perfected in charity.
+
+Fear is not in charity, etc... Perfect charity, or love, banisheth human
+fear, that is, the fear of men; as also all perplexing fear, which makes
+men mistrust or despair of God's mercy; and that kind of servile fear,
+which makes them fear the punishment of sin more than the offence
+offered to God. But it no way excludes the wholesome fear of God's
+judgments, so often recomended in holy writ; nor that fear and
+trembling, with which we are told to work out our salvation. Phil. 2.12.
+
+4:19. Let us therefore love God: because God first hath loved us.
+
+4:20. If any man say: I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar.
+For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth, how can he love God
+whom he seeth not?
+
+4:21. And this commandment we have from God, that he who loveth God love
+also his brother.
+
+1 John Chapter 5
+
+Of them that are born of God, and of true charity. Faith overcomes the
+world. Three that bear witness to Christ. Of faith in his name and of
+sin that is and is not to death.
+
+5:1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God.  And
+every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him.
+
+Is born of God... That is, is justified, and become a child of God by
+baptism: which is also to be understood; provided the belief of this
+fundamental article of the Christian faith be accompanied with all the
+other conditions, which, by the word of God, and his appointment, are
+also required to justification; such as a general belief of all that God
+has revealed and promised: hope, love, repentance, and a sincere
+disposition to keep God's holy law and commandments.
+
+5:2. In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God
+and keep his commandments.
+
+5:3. For this is the charity of God: That we keep his commandments.  And
+his commandments are not heavy.
+
+5:4. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world. And this is the
+victory which overcameth the world: Our faith.
+
+Our faith... Not a bare, speculative, or dead faith; but a faith that
+worketh by charity. Gal. 5.6
+
+5:5. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that
+Jesus is the Son of God?
+
+5:6. This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus Christ: not by water
+only but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit which testifieth that
+Christ is the truth.
+
+Came by water and blood... Not only to wash away our sins by the water
+of baptism, but by his own blood.
+
+5:7. And there are Three who give testimony in heaven, the Father, the
+Word, and the Holy Ghost. And these three are one.
+
+5:8. And there are three that give testimony on earth: the spirit and
+the water and the blood. And these three are one.
+
+The spirit, and the water, and the blood... As the Father, the Word, and
+the Holy Ghost, all bear witness to Christ's divinity; so the spirit,
+which he yielded up, crying out with a loud voice upon the cross; and
+the water and blood that issued from his side, bear witness to his
+humanity, and are one; that is, all agree in one testimony.
+
+5:9. If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is
+greater. For this is the testimony of God, which is greater, because he
+hath testified of his Son.
+
+5:10. He that believeth in the Son of God hath the testimony of God in
+himself. He that believeth not the Son maketh him a liar: because he
+believeth not in the testimony which God hath testified of his Son.
+
+He that believeth not the Son, etc... By refusing to believe the
+testimonies given by the three divine persons, that Jesus was the
+Messias, and the true Son of God, by whom eternal life is obtained and
+promised to all that comply with his doctrine. In him we have also this
+lively confidence, that we shall obtain whatever we ask, according to
+his will, when we ask what is for our good, with perseverance, and in
+the manner we ought. And this we know, and have experience of, by having
+obtained the petitions that we have made.
+
+5:11. And this is the testimony that God hath given to us eternal life.
+And this life is in his Son.
+
+5:12. He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son hath not
+life.
+
+5:13. These things I write to you that you may know that you have
+eternal life: you who believe in the name of the Son of God.
+
+5:14. And this is the confidence which we have towards him: That,
+whatsoever we shall ask according to his will, he heareth us.
+
+5:15. And we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask: we know that we
+have the petitions which we request of him.
+
+5:16. He that knoweth his brother to sin a sin which is not to death,
+let him ask: and life shall be given to him who sinneth not to death.
+There is a sin unto death. For that I say not that any man ask.
+
+A sin which is not to death, etc... It is hard to determine what St.
+John here calls a sin which is not to death, and a sin which is unto
+death. The difference can not be the same as betwixt sins that are
+called venial and mortal: for he says, that if a man pray for his
+brother, who commits a sin that is not to death, life shall be given
+him: therefore such a one had before lost the life of grace, and been
+guilty of what is commonly called a mortal sin.  And when he speaks of a
+sin that is unto death, and adds these words, for that I say not that
+any man ask, it cannot be supposed that St. John would say this of every
+mortal sin, but only of some heinous sins, which are very seldom
+remitted, because such sinners very seldom repent. By a sin therefore
+which is unto death, interpreters commonly understand a wilfull apostasy
+from the faith, and from the known truth, when a sinner, hardened by his
+own ingratitude, becomes deaf to all admonitions, will do nothing for
+himself, but runs on to a final impenitence. Nor yet does St. John say,
+that such a sin is never remitted, or cannnot be remitted, but only has
+these words, for that I say not that any man ask the remission: that
+is, though we must pray for all sinners whatsoever, yet men can not pray
+for such sinners with such a confidence of obtaining always their
+petitions, as St. John said before, ver. 14.  Whatever exposition we
+follow on this verse, our faith teacheth us from the holy scriptures,
+that God desires not the death of any sinner, but that he be converted
+and live, Ezech. 33.11. Though men's sins be as red as scarlet, they
+shall become as white as snow, Isa. 3.18. It is the will of God that
+every one come to the knowledge of the truth, and be saved. There is no
+sin so great but which God is willing to forgive, and has left a power
+in his church to remit the most enormous sins: so that no sinner need
+despair of pardon, nor will any sinner perist, but by his own fault. A
+sin unto death... Some understand this of final impenitence, or of dying
+in mortal sin; which is the only sin that never can be remitted. But, it
+is probable, he may also comprise under this name, the sin of apostasy
+from the faith, and some other such heinous sins as are seldom and
+hardly remitted: and therefore he gives little encouragement, to such as
+pray for these sinners, to expect what they ask.
+
+5:17. All iniquity is sin. And there is a sin unto death.
+
+5:18. We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not: but the
+generation of God preserveth him and the wicked one toucheth him not.
+
+5:19. We know that we are of God and the whole world is seated in
+wickedness.
+
+And the whole world is seated in wickedness... That is, a great part of
+the world. It may also signify, is under the wicked one, meaning the
+devil, who is elsewhere called the prince of this world, that is, of all
+the wicked. John 12.31.
+
+5:20. And we know that the Son of God is come. And he hath given us
+understanding that we may know the true God and may be in his true Son.
+This is the true God and life eternal.
+
+And may be in his true Son. He is, or this is the true God, and life
+eternal... Which words are a clear proof of Christ's divinity, and as
+such made use of by the ancient fathers.
+
+5:21. Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
+
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