I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children,.... Not all, but some of them; for good parents have not always good children, or at least not all of them; Adam had a Cain, Abraham an Ishmael, and Isaac an Esau: God is pleased to show his discriminating grace in tribes and families, by taking some, and leaving others: it is a great mercy when any are called by grace, and instead of the fathers are the children: and this was the case of some of the children of this elect lady, they werewalking in the truth: in Christ, the truth, by faith, as they had received him; and in the truth of the Gospel, as they had embraced and professed it; they abode in it, and by it, and made a proficiency in the knowledge of it, which may be signified by walking, that being a progressive action: as also they walked according to it, and as became it; and likewise they walked in the truth of Gospel worship, discipline, and ordinances:as we have received a commandment from the Father; and which has been made known by Jesus Christ, as his mind and will.
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2 John 1:4
2 John 1:4
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to…2 John 1 — Overview2 John 1 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledge2 John 1:1, He exhorts a certain honourable matron, with her children, to persevere in Christian love and belief, 2 John 1:8, lest they lose the reward of their former profession; 2 John 1:10, and to have nothing to do…2 John 1 — Overview2 John 1 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThough this epistle was called in question and gainsaid by some as authentic, as Eusebius says , yet there is no room to doubt of the authority of it; it was very early received into the canon of the Scripture, and is…2 John 1:1-42 John 1:1-4 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleAncient epistles began, as here, with salutation and good wishes:
religion consecrates, as far as may be, old forms, and turns
compliments into real expressions of life and love. Here we have, as
usually,
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