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05/02/2021 – Day 350 – 2 John – all //”Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.” John Wesley

Good morning! My Halley’s Bible Handbook notes:

“The other Apostles had all passed on, years before. John alone was left, the Primate of all Christendom, the last surviving Companion of Jesus. How appropriate the title. (Elder)”

• re: “The Elect Lady” : “She may ahve been literally, a Person, a well-known and prominent Woman, somewhere near Ephesus, in whose Hom, a Church met. Or, she may ahve been a Church symbolically called by a Woman’s name. Her Elect Sister (13), another prominent Christian Woman Leader , in the Congregation in which John was resident , or the Congregation itself.”
• “The word “Truth” is used 5 times in the first 4 verses.”
• And this connects directly with brother Clif’s post re: Gab.com (my words: Let us resolve to cease “dancing with the devil”):
• “False teachers , 7-11: “These already had been referred to in 1 John 2: 18-19: going from Church to Church. Teaching, in the Name of Christ, Doctrines that were utterly subversive of the Christian Faith. This letter seems to have been written to caution the Elect Lady to be on her guard, and refuse Hospitality to such Teachers. The warning is prefaced with an exhortation to Love (5,6), as if to indicate that the Practice of Christian Love does not mean that we should give encouragement to Enemies of the Truth.” (“Amen”!)

Soli Deo Gloria indeed!