Quotes & Notes
- God is said to be light by his own nature, and to be in
light, that is to say, in that everlasting infinite blessedness: and we
are said to walk in light in that the beams of that light shine to us in
the Word. (4) A digression the matter at hand, to the remission of sins:
for this our sanctification who walk in the light, is a testimony of our
joining and knitting together with Christ: but because this our light is
very dark, we must obtain another benefit in Christ, that is, that our
sins may be forgiven us being sprinkled with his blood: and this in
conclusion is the support and anchor of our salvation.
- 1599 Geneva Bible Notes
- But if we walk in the light-In all holiness.
- As God is (a deeper word than walk, and more worthy of God) in the
light, then we may truly say, we have fellowship one with another-We
who have seen, and you who have not seen, do alike enjoy that
fellowship with God. The imitation of God being the only sure proof of
our having fellowship with him.
- And the blood of Jesus Christ his Son-With the grace purchased
thereby.
- Cleanseth us from all sin-Both original and actual, taking away
all the guilt and all the power. - John
Wesley Notes
- Walk in the light; know and obey the truth. Fellowship one with
another; joyful communion with each other and with God. Cleanseth us
from all sin; expiates the guilt of all our sin, and cleanses our souls
from all its pollution. This cleansing, so far as it is a work of
sanctification, is not a momentary act, but a process which God carries
forward till it ends in our perfect and everlasting holiness. It is
given to those who walk in the light as God is in the light, seeking
daily to know and do all God's will. The atonement of Christ is the
ground, faith in him the means, and the Holy Ghost the author of
sanctification; and all who truly believe, confess and forsake their
sins, will, at the close of their probation, become completely and
unchangeably perfect. - Family Bible Notes
- In regard of the permanency of the remedy, which, is expressed
in the present tense, it cleanseth:
- implying, that this blood doth never lose its efficacy; it
cleanses still no less than it did the first moment it was shed; nay,
it cleanseth virtual before it was shed; all the patriarchs and
prophets were justified, and saved by faith in his blood, who was the
Lamb slain from the beginning of the world, in the decree and purpose
of God.
- Eternal thanks to our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God, whose
blood cleanseth from the guilt and filth of all sin.
- William Burkitt's Notes
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