Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 John 4:8

COM commentary-section · status:draft · license:PD

8. knoweth not — Greek aorist: not only knoweth not now, but never knew, has not once for all known God. God is love —There is no Greek article to love, but to God; therefore we cannot translate, Love is God. God is fundamentally and essentially LOVE: not merely is loving, for then John's argument would not stand; for the conclusion from the premises then would be this, This man is not loving: God is loving; therefore he knoweth not God IN SO FAR AS GOD IS LOVING; still he might know Him in His other attributes. But when we take love as God's essence, the argument is sound: This man doth not love, and therefore knows not love: God is essentially love, therefore he knows not God. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-9" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

part_of pericope/per-1jn-4-002

절 (explains)

bible-text/1jn-4-8

Source

source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
evidence_grade: T_theological

엣지 (그래프 연결)

나가는(out)

explains → 1 John 4:8 bible-text/1jn-4-8

part_of → 1 John 4:7-21 pericope/per-1jn-4-002

translated_as → Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 John 4:8 (ko) language_pack/jfb-1jn-4-8-8-ko