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title: "Abbott"
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**Verse 1**
*From beginning;* the beginning of the new dispensation, that is, from the commencement of the ministry of Christ.--*Which we have heard,* &c. By these expressions John intends to declare, emphatically, that he had every conceivable means of knowledge that his testimony in respect to the life, death, and resurrection, of Christ was true.--*Of the word of life;* Jesus Christ

**Verse 2**
*And show unto you;* declare John in unto you.--*Which was with, the Father.* This corresponds in a striking manner with the declaration in [1 John 1:1](../../../kjv/1-john/1/1),[1 John 2:14](../../../kjv/1-john/2/14). that he who was manifested in the flesh, as the Savior of men, previously coëxisted with the Father.--*Was manifested;* by becoming flesh, and dwelling upon the earth.

**Verse 3**
*May have fellowship with us;* may join with us in acknowledging and obeying him.

**Verse 4**
*That your joy may be full;* that you may attain to perfect and eternal joy.

**Verse 5**
*That God is light.* There are several of the divine perfections which might be represented metaphorically by light. That holiness is the one here intended, is evident from [1 John 1:7](../../../kjv/1-john/1/7), where it appears that it is an attribute of God, in respect to which men are bound to conform to him.

**Verse 6**
*With him;*with God.--*Walk in darkness;* live in sin.--*Do not the truth;* do not act consistently with truth.

**Verse 7**
*The blood of Jesus Christ.* The blood of Christ denotes the death of Christ, and the sufferings attendant upon it,--including the whole of that protracted scene of suffering, which, commencing at Gethsemane, and ending on the cross, constituted the great propitiatory sacrifice by which the world was redeemed.

**Verse 10**
*Make him a liar;* since he has in so many ways declared that the conduct and characters of all men are entirely inconsistent with the requirements of his law.

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