Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 John 2:9

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9-11. There is no mean between light and darkness, love and hatred, life and death, God and the world: wherever spiritual life is, however weak, there darkness and death no longer reign, and love supplants hatred; and :- holds good: wherever life is not, there death, darkness, the flesh, the world, and hatred, however glossed over and hidden from man's observation, prevail; and :- holds good. "Where love is not, there hatred is; for the heart cannot remain a void" [BENGEL]. in the light —as his proper element. his brother —his neighbor, and especially those of the Christian brotherhood. The very title "brother" is a reason why love should be exercised. even until now —notwithstanding that "the true light already has begun to shine" ( 1 John 2:8 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-10" class="com-number"

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