20 [a]But ye have an [b]ointment from that [c]Holy one, and know all things.

21 [d]I have not written unto you, because ye know not the truth: but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

22 [e]Who is a liar, but he that denieth that Jesus is [f]that Christ? the same is that Antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 2:20 Thirdly, he comforteth them to make them stand fast, insomuch as they are anointed by the holy Ghost with the true knowledge of salvation.
  2. 1 John 2:20 The grace of the holy Ghost, and this is a borrowed kind of speech taken from the anointings used in the Law.
  3. 1 John 2:20 From Christ who is peculiarly called holy.
  4. 1 John 2:21 The taking away of an objection. He wrote not these things as to men which are ignorant of religion, but rather as to them which do well know the truth, yet so far forth that they are able to discern truth from falsehood.
  5. 1 John 2:22 He showeth now plainly the false doctrine of the Antichrists, to wit, that either they fight against the person of Christ, or his office or both together, and at once. And they that do so do in vain boast and brag of God, for that in denying the Son the Father also is denied.
  6. 1 John 2:22 Is the true Messiah.

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