🇬🇧 Glory be to Jesus Christ! 🌞
To the Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian:
1 John IV, 12, 13, 16 – ‘ημιν’ – ‘emin’ – (to) ‘us’ ((in) us). ‘τετελειωμενη’ – ‘teteleiomene’ – ‘became mature, perfect, complete’.
1 John IV, 14, 16, 17, 19 – ‘ημεις’ – ‘emeis’ – ‘we’.
1 John IV, 17, 18 – ‘τετελειωται’ – ‘teteleiotai’ – ‘became perfect, mature, complete, accomplished’ (i.e., achieved the purpose of its existence, became what God intended). ‘ημων’ – ‘emon’ – ‘us’. ‘ημερα’ - ‘emera’ – ‘day’.
1 John IV, 19 – ‘ημας’ – ‘emas’ – ‘us’.
Today’s reading is preceded by the one I wrote about here:
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
The continuation of today’s reading is the one I wrote about here:
https://www.facebook.com/Oleksandr.S.Zhabenko/
No one has seen God,
meaning the Father, not in manifestations, but
similarly to how the Son of God and the Holy Spirit see.
The Apostle John the Theologian is called the Apostle of Love
. And
today’s reading is devoted mainly to the theme of love. The apostle
clarifies how much love influences the relationship with God, whether a
person is with God.
John also testifies that God was the First One to show love to us, just as Paul and the other apostles say.
God is love
– like other similar statements in John’s Gospel – must
be understood to mean that God manifests Himself as true, perfect and
complete love, that God Himself lives in love and wants other creatures
to freely join in. It is impossible to truly unite with God without
love. See a more detailed explanation here:
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There is a good essay on fear and love here:
https://oleksandr-zhabenko.github.io/en/DialogueOnWordsChristFear.html
John XXI, 25 – ‘οιμαι’ – ‘oimai’ – (I)
think
.
The readings where the Apostle John the Theologian stands with the Mother of God beside the Crucified Saviour, and Christ actually adopts John to the Mother of God (which is a great honour), as well as the fact that it was John the Theologian who wrote the fourth Gospel, also show that the actions of God are inexhaustible in depth. Therefore, it is wrong to think that everything has been written and said in theology.
Glory be to Thee, our God, glory be to Thee!
Source:
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