6 That God is light, and in him there is no darkness. If we shall say that we have society with him, and walk in darkness: we lie, and do not the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light: we have society one toward another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 8 If we shall say that we have no sin, we seduce ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins: he is faithful and just, for to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all iniquity. 10 we shall say that we have not sinned: we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. 5 And this is the annunciation which we Et hæc est annunciatio, quam audivimus ab eo, et 5 have heard of him, and declare unto you, annunciamus vobis: Quoniam Deus lux est, et tenebræ in eo non sunt ullæ. Si dixerimus quoniam societatem 6 habemus cum eo, et in tenebris ambulamus, mentimur, et veritatem non facimus. Si autem in luce ambula- 7 mus sicut et ipse est in luce, societatem habemus ad invicem, et sanguis Jesu Christi, Filii ejus, emundat nos ab omni peccato. Si dixerimus quoniam peccatum 8 non habemus, ipsi nos seducimus, et veritas in nobis non est. Si confiteamur peccata nostra, fidelis est, et 9 justus, ut remittat nobis peccata nostra, et emundet nos ab omni iniquitate. Si dixerimus quoniam non 10 My little children, these things I write to peccavimus, mendacem facimus eum, et verbum ejus non est in nobis. you, that you sin not. But and if any man shall sin, we have an advocate with the Filioli mei, hæc scribo vobis, ut non peccetis. Sed 2 Father, Jesus Christ the just: 2 and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's et si quis peccaverit, advocatum habemus apud Patrem, only, but also for the whole world's. And Jesum Christum justum: et ipse est propitiatio pro 2 in this we know that we have known him, if we observe his commandments. He that peccatis nostris: non pro nostris autem tantum, sed saith he knoweth him, and keepeth not his etiam pro totius mundi. Et in hoc scimus quoniam 3 commandments: is a liar, and the truth is not in him: 5 but he that keepeth his word, cognovimus eum, si mandata ejus observemus. Qui 4 in him in very deed the charity of God is dicit se nosse eum, et mandata ejus non custodit, menperfected in this we know that we be in him. He that saith he abideth in him: dax est, et in hoc veritas non est. Qui autem servat 5 ought even as he walked, himself also to verbum ejus, vere in hoc charitas Dei perfecta est: et in hoc scimus quoniam in ipso sumus. Qui dicit se in 6 ipso manere, debet, sicut ille ambulavit, et ipse walk. 7 My dearest, 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. 8 Again a new commandment write I to you, which thing is true both in him and in you: because the darkness is that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother: is in the darkness even until now. 10 He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and scandal is not in him. But he that hateth his brother: is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes. passed, and the true light now shineth. He I 12 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name. write unto you, fathers, because you have known him which is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. 14 I write to you, infants, because you have known the Father; ambulare Charissimi, non mandatum novum scribo vobis, sed 7 mandatum vetus, quod habuistis ab initio: Mandatum vetus est verbum, quod audistis. Iterum mandatum 8 novum scribo vobis, quod verum est et in ipso, et in Vobis: quia tenebræ transierunt, et verum lumen jam lucet. Qui dicit se in luce esse, et fratrem suum odit, 9 in tenebris est usque adhuc. Qui diligit fratrem suum, 10 in lumine manet, et scandalum in eo non est. Qui II autem odit fratrem suum, in tenebris est, et in tenebris ambulat, et nescit quo eat: quia tenebræ obcæcaverunt oculos ejus. Scribo vobis, filioli, quoniam remittuntur vobis 12 peccata propter nomen ejus. Scribo vobis, patres, 13 quoniam cognovistis eum, qui ab initio est. Scribo vobis, adolescentes, quoniam vicistis malignum. Scribo 14 vobis, infantes, quoniam cognovistis patrem. Scribo I write unto you, young men, because you vobis, juvenes, quoniam fortes estis, et verbum Dei in you, and you have overcome the wicked manet in vobis, et vicistis malignum. Nolite diligere 15 15 Love not the world, nor those mundum, neque ea, quæ in mundo sunt. man love the world, the charity of the diligit mundum, non est charitas Patris in eo: quoniam 16 is in the world, is the concupiscence of omne, quod est in mundo, concupiscentia carnis est, et the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes, concupiscentia oculorum, et superbia vitæ: quæ non are strong, and the word of God abideth one. things which are in the world. If any Father is not in him; 16 because all that Si quis 17 est ex Patre, sed ex mundo est. Et mundus transit, et concupiscentia ejus. Qui autem facit voluntatem Dei, manet in æternum. 18 Filioli, novissima hora est: et sicut audistis quia Antichristus venit: et nunc Antichristi multi facti sunt: 19 unde scimus, quia novissima hora est. Ex nobis prodierunt, sed non erant ex nobis: nam, si fuissent ex nobis, permansissent utique nobiscum: sed ut manifesti 20 sint quoniam non sunt omnes ex nobis. Sed vos unc21 tionem habetis a Sancto, et nostis omnia. Non scripsi vobis quasi ignorantibus veritatem, sed quasi scientibus eam: et quoniam omne mendacium ex veritate non est. 22 Quis est mendax, nisi is, qui negat quoniam Jesus est Christus? Hic est Antichristus, qui negat Patrem, et 23 Filium. Omnis, qui negat Filium, nec Patrem habet: 24 qui confitetur Filium, et Patrem habet. Vos quod audistis ab initio, in vobis permaneat: Si in vobis permanserit quod audistis ab initio, et vos in Filio, et 25 Patre manebitis. Et hæc est repromissio, quam ipse pollicitus est nobis, vitam æternam. 26, 27 Hæc scripsi vobis de his, qui seducunt vos. Et vos unctionem quam accepistis ab eo, maneat in vobis. Et non necesse habetis ut aliquis doceat vos: sed sicut unctio ejus docet vos de omnibus, et verum est, et non est mendacium. Et sicut docuit vos: manete in eo. 28 Et nunc, filioli, manete in eo: ut cum apparuerit, habeamus fiduciam, et non confundamur ab eo in ad29 ventu ejus. Si scitis quoniam justus est, scitote quoniam et omnis, qui facit justitiam, ex ipso natus est. 3 4 est. Videte qualem charitatem dedit nobis Pater, ut filii Dei nominemur et simus. Propter hoc mundus non 2 novit nos: quia non novit eum. Charissimi, nunc filii Dei sumus: et nondum apparuit quid erimus. Scimus quoniam cum apparuerit, similes ei erimus: 3 quoniam videbimus eum sicuti est. Et omnis, qui habet hanc spem in eo, sanctificat se, sicut et ille sanctus Omnis, qui facit peccatum, et iniquitatem facit: 5 et peccatum est iniquitas. Et scitis quia ille apparuit ut peccata nostra tolleret: et peccatum in eo non est. 6 Omnis, qui in eo manet, non peccat: et omnis, qui 7 peccat, non vidid eum, nec cognovit eum. Filioli, nemo vos seducat. Qui facit justitiam, justus est: 8 sicut et ille justus est. Qui facit peccatum, ex diabolo est: quoniam ab initio diabolus peccat. In hoc ap9 paruit Filius Dei, ut dissolvat opera diaboli. qui natus est ex Deo, peccatum non facit: semen ipsius in eo manet, et non potest 10 quoniam ex Deo natus est. In hoc manifesti Omnis, quoniam peccare; sunt filii and the pride of life, which is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth, and the concupiscence thereof. But he that doeth the will of God, abideth for ever. 19 18 Little children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard, that Antichrist cometh : now there are become many antichrists: whereby we know, that it is the last hour. They went out from us: but they were not surely have remained with us: but that they 20 But you have the unction from the Holy be manifest that they are not all of us. one, and know all things. 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. Who is a liar, but This is Antichrist, which denieth the Father and the Son. Every one that denieth the Son, 'neither hath he the Father. He that confesseth the Son, hath the Father also. 24 You, that which you have heard from the beginning, let it abide in you. If that abide in you which you have heard from the bethe Father. 25 And this is the promise which ginning, you also shall abide in the Son and he promised us, life everlasting. of us; for if they had been of us, they would he which denieth that Jesus is not Christ? 25 These things have I written to you concerning them that seduce you. 27 And you, the unction which you have received from need that any man teach you: but as his him, let it abide in you. And you have no unction teacheth you of all things, and it is true, and it is no lie. And as it hath taught you, abide in him. 23 And now little children abide in him: that when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be confounded of him in his coming. 29 If you know that he is just, know ye that every one also which doeth justice, is born of him. See what manner of charity the Father hath given us, that we should be named and be the sons of God. For this cause the world doth not know us, because it hath not known him. My dearest, now we are 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. And every one that hath this hope in him, sanctifieth himself, as he also is holy. Every one that committeth sin, committeth also iniquity: and sin is iniquity. And you know that he appeared to take away our sins: and sin in him there is none. Every one that abideth in him, sinneth not: and every one that Little children, let no man seduce you. He sinneth, hath not seen him, nor known him. that doeth justice, is just: even as he also is devil: because the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this, appeared the Son of God, that he might dissolve the works of the devil. Every one that is born of God, in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born committeth not sin; because his seed abideth of God. 10 In this are the children of God just. He that committeth sin, is of the manifest, and the children of the devil. Dei, et filii diaboli. Omnis, qui non est justus, non Every one that is not just, is not of God, heard from the beginning, That you love one and he that loveth not his brother; 11 because est ex Deo, et qui non diligit fratrem suum: quoniam II this is the annunciation, which you have hæc est annunciatio, quam audistis ab initio, ut dilianother. 12 Not as Cain, who was of the gatis alterutrum. Non sicut Cain, qui ex maligno 12 what cause killed he him? Because his erat, et occidit fratrem suum. Et propter quid occidit eum? Quoniam opera ejus maligna erant: fratris autem ejus, justa. wicked, and killed his brother. And for works were wicked: but his brother's, just. 13 Marvel not, brethren, if the world hate you. "We know that we are translated from death to life, because we love the brethren. And you know that no murderer hath life Nolite mirari, fratres, si odit vos mundus. Nos 13, 14 scimus quoniam translati sumus de morte ad vitam, He that loveth not, abideth in death. 15 Who- quoniam diligimus fratres. Qui non diligit, manet in soever hateth his brother: is a murderer. morte: Omnis, qui odit fratrem suum, homicida est. 15 everlasting abiding in himself. 16 In this we Et scitis quoniam omnis homicida non habet vitam have known the charity of God, because he æternam in semetipso manentem. In hoc cognovimus 16 hath yielded his life for us and we ought charitatem Dei, quoniam ille animam suam pro nobis posuit: et nos debemus fratribus animas ponere. Qui habuerit substantiam hujus mundi, et viderit 17 fratrem suum necessitatem habere, et clauserit viscera sua ab eo: quomodo charitas Dei manet in eo? to yield our lives for the brethren. He and shall see his brother have need, and shad shut his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him? that shall have the substance of the world, pro Filioli mei, non diligamus verbo, neque lingua, sed 18 opere et veritate. In hoc cognoscimus quoniam ex 19 veritate sumus: et in conspectu ejus suadebimus corda 18 My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed and truth; 19 In this we know that we are of the truth: and in his sight we shall persuade our hearts. 20 For if our heart do reprehend us: God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all nostra. things. My dearest, if our heart do not reprehend us, we have confidence toward God; and whatsoever we shall ask, we shall receive of him because we keep his are pleasing before him. 23 And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his son Jesus Christ: and love one an commandments, and do those things which us. other, as he hath given commandment unto 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. My dearest, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits if they be of God: because Quoniam si reprehendit nos cor nostrum: 20 major est Deus corde nostro, et novit omnia. Charissimi, 21 si cor nostrum non reprehenderit nos, fiduciam habemus ad Deum: et quidquid petierimus, accipiemus ab 22 eo: quoniam mandata ejus custodimus, et ea, quæ sunt placita coram eo, facimus. Et hoc est mandatum ejus: 23 Ut credamus in nomine Filii ejus Jesu Christi: et diligamus alterutrum, sicut dedit mandatum nobis. Et qui servat mandata ejus, in illo manet, et ipse in eo: 24 et in hoc scimus quoniam manet in nobis, de Spiritu quem dedit nobis." Charissimi, nolite omni spiritui credere, sed probate 4 many false prophets are gone out into the spiritus si ex Deo sint: quoniam multi pseudoprophetæ world. In this is the spirit of God known; exierunt in mundum. In hoc cognoscitur spiritus 2 every spirit that confesseth Jesus Christ to Dei: omnis spiritus qui confitetur Jesum Christum in have come in flesh, is of God: 3 and every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God: carne venisse, ex Deo est: et omnis spiritus, qui solvit 3 and this is antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh, and now he is in the Jesum, ex Deo non est, et hic est Antichristus, de quo world. You are of God, little children, audistis quoniam venit, et nunc jam in mundo est. he that is in you, than he that is in the world. Vos ex Deo estis, filioli, et vicistis eum, quoniam 4 They are of the world: therefore of the major est qui in vobis est, quam qui in mundo. Ipsi 5 them. We are of God. He that knoweth de mundo sunt: ideo de mundo loquuntur, et mundus God, heareth us; he that is not of God, eos audit. Nos ex Deo sumus. Qui novit Deum, 6 heareth us not; in this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. audit nos: qui non est ex Deo, non audit nos: in hoc cognoscimus Spiritum veritatis, et spiritum erroris. and have overcome him; because greater is world they speak, and the world heareth 7 My dearest, let us love one another: be cause charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not, knoweth not God: Charissimi, diligamus nos invicem: quia charitas ex 7 Deo est. Et omnis, qui diligit, ex Deo natus est, et cognoscit Deum. Qui non diligit, non novit Deum : 8 9 quoniam Deus charitas est. In hoc apparuit charitas Dei in nobis, quoniam Filium suum unigenitum misit 10 Deus in mundum, ut vivamus per eum. In hoc est charitas non quasi nos dilexerimus Deum, sed quoniam ipse prior dilexit nos, et misit Filium suum propitiationem pro peccatis nostris. II Charissimi, si sic Deus dilexit nos: et nos debemus 12 alterutrum diligere. Deum nemo vidit umquam. Si diligamus invicem, Deus in nobis manet, et charitas 13 ejus in nobis perfecta est. In hoc cognoscimus quoniam in eo manemus, et ipse in nobis: quoniam de Spiritu 14 suo dedit nobis. Et nos vidimus, et testificamur quoniam Pater misit Filium suum Salvatorem mundi. 15 Quisquis confessus fuerit quoniam Jesus est Filius Dei, 16 Deus in eo manet, et ipse in Deo. Et nos cognovimus, et credidimus charitati, quam habet Deus in nobis. Deus charitas est: et qui manet in charitate, in Deo 17 manet, et Deus in eo. In hoc perfecta est charitas Dei nobiscum, ut fiduciam habeamus in die judicii: 18 quia sicut ille est, et nos sumus in hoc mundo. Timor non est in charitate: sed perfecta charitas foras mittit timorem, quoniam timor pœnam habet: qui autem 19 timet, non est perfectus in charitate. Nos ergo diliSi 20 gamus Deum, quoniam Deus prior dilexit nos. quis dixerit quoniam diligo Deum, et fratrem suum oderit, mendax est. Qui enim non diligit fratrem suum quem videt, Deum, quem non videt, quomodo potest 21 diligere? Et hoc mandatum habemus a Deo; ut qui diligit Deum, diligat et fratrem suum. 4 Omnis, qui credit, quoniam Jesus est Christus, ex Deo natus est. Et omnis, qui diligit eum qui genuit, 2 diligit et eum qui natus est ex eo. In hoc cognoscimus quoniam diligimus natos Dei, cum Deum diliHæc est enim 3 gamus, et mandata ejus faciamus. charitas Dei, ut mandata ejus custodiamus: et man4 data ejus gravia non sunt. Quoniam omne, quod natum est ex Deo, vincit mundum: et hæc est victoria, 5 quæ vincit mundum, fides nostra. Quis est, qui vincit mundum, nisi qui credit quoniam Jesus est filius Dei? 6 Hic est, qui venit per aquam et sanguinem, Jesus Christus: non in aqua solum, sed in aqua et sanguine. Et Spiritus est qui testificatur, quoniam Christus est veritas. Quoniam tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in cœlo: Pater, Verbum, et Spiritus sanctus: et hi tres unum 8 sunt. Et tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in terra: 9 Spiritus, et aqua, et sanguis: et hi tres unum sunt. Si testimonium hominum accipimus, testimonium Dei majus est: quoniam hoc est testimonium Dei, quod 7 because God is charity. In this hath the hath sent his only-begotten son into the world, that we may live by him. 10 In this is charity not as though we have loved him, but because he hath loved us, and sent his son a propitiation for our sins. charity of God appeared in us, because God 11 My dearest, if God hath so loved us: we also ought to love one another. "God no man hath seen at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his charity in us is perfected. 13 In this we know that of his Spirit hath given to us. we abide in him, and he in us: because he 14 And we hath sent his Son the Saviour of the world. have seen, and do testify, that the Father 15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the God. Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in 16 And we have known and have be lieved the charity, which God hath in us. charity, abideth in God, and God in him. In this is charity perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment: because as he is, we also are in the world. 18 Fear is not in charity: but perfect charity casteth out fear, because fear hath painfulness; and he that feareth, is not perfect in charity. 19 Let us therefore love God, because God first hath loved us. If any man shall say, that I love God: and hateth his brother, he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth: God whom commandment we have from God: that he God is charity: and he that abideth in he seeth not, how can he love? 21 And this which loveth God, love also his brother. is Whosoever believeth that Jesus is Christ, born of God. And every one that loveth him which begat: loveth him also which was the children of God: when as we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the charity of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not heavy. Because all that is born of God, tory which overcometh the world, our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but God? This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus Christ: not in water only, but which testifieth, that Christ is the truth. born of him. In this we know that we love overcometh the world: and this is the vic he that believeth that Jesus is the son of in water and blood. And it is the Spirit the testimony of God in himself." He liar: because he believeth not in the testi greater, that he hath testified of his son. majus est, quoniam testificatus est de Filio suo. Qui 10 10 He that believeth in the son of God, hath credit in filium Dei, habet testimonium Dei in se. Qui that believeth not the Son, maketh him a non credit Filio, mendacem facit eum: quia non credit mony which God hath testified of his son. in testimonium, quod testificatus est Deus de Filio suo. 11 And this is the testimony, that God hath Et hoc est testimonium, quoniam vitam æternam dedit II given us life everlasting. And this life is in his son. 12 He that hath the Son, hath life: nobis Deus. Et hæc vita in Filio ejus est. Qui habet 12 he that hath not the son of God, hath not Filium, habet vitam: qui non habet Filium, vitam non habet. life. 13 These things I write to you, that you believe in the name of the son of God. 14 And Et 15 Hæc scribo vobis: ut sciatis quoniam vitam habetis 13 may know that you have eternal life which æternam, qui creditis in nomine Filii Dei. Et hæc 14 this is the confidence which we have toward est fiducia, quam habemus ad eum: Quia quodcumque him: that, whatsoever we shall ask according petierimus secundum voluntatem ejus, audit nos. to his will, he heareth us. 15 And we know that he heareth us whatsoever we shall ask: scimus quia audit nos quidquid petierimus: scimus we know that we have the petitions which quoniam habemus petitiones quas postulamus ab eo. we request of him. Qui scit fratrem suum peccare peccatum non ad 16 mortem, petat, et dabitur ei vita peccanti non ad morEst peccatum ad mortem: non pro illo dico ut be given him, sinning not to death. There roget quis. Omnis iniquitas peccatum est: et est 17 man ask. 7 All iniquity is sin. And there peccatum non ad mortem. Scimus quia omnis, qui 18 is a sin to death. We know that every natus est ex Deo, non peccat: sed generatio Dei conservat cum, et malignus non tangit eum. quoniam ex Deo sumus: et mundus totus in maligno Et scimus quoniam Filius Dei venit, et 20 sensum ut cognoscamus verum Deum, 16 He that knoweth his brother to sin a tem. sin not to death, let him ask, and life shall is a sin to death: for that I say not that any one which is born of God, sinneth not: but the generation of God preserveth him, and Scimus 19 the true God, and may be in his true son. et simus in vero Filio ejus. Hic est verus Deus, et vita æterna. Filioli, custodite vos a a simulacris. 21 Amen. This is the true God, and life everlasting. 21 My little children, keep yourselves from Idols. Amen. EPISTOLA SECUNDA JOANNIS. THE Senior to the lady Elect and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all that have known the truth, for the truth which abideth in us, and shall be with us for ever. 3 Grace be with you, mercy, peace from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus the son of the Father in truth, and charity. SENIOR Electæ dominæ, et natis ejus, quos ego diligo in veritate, et non ego solus, sed et omnes, qui cognoverunt veritatem, propter veritatem, quæ per- 2 manet in nobis, et nobiscum erit in æternum. Sit vobiscum gratia, misericordia, pax, a Deo Patre, et a Christo Jesu Filio Patris, in veritate, et charitate. 3 Gavisus sum valde, quoniam inveni de filiis tuis 4 4I was exceeding glad, because I have found of thy children walking in truth, as ambulantes in veritate, sicut mandatum accepimus a |
