Andreas of Caesarea : This means that such a person has overcome all evil and ungodliness. For our faith has destroyed all ignorance and driven out all darkness. — CATENA Bede : For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. Therefore, God's commandments are not heavy because all who devote themselves to them in true devotion equally despise the adversities and blandishments of the world with equal mind, even loving death itself as the entrance to the heavenly homeland. And lest anyone trust that he can overcome the world or its luxuries or labors by his virtue, it is deliberately added: — Commentary on the Catholic Epistles Bede : And this is the victory that overcomes the world: our faith. Specifically, that faith which works through love; that faith by which we humbly seek the help of Him who said: In the world you will have tribulations, but take courage, I have overcome the world (John 16). — Commentary on the Catholic Epistles Cyril of Alexandria : Neither a Jew nor a pagan nor a heretic can do anything in the face of this victory which is ours through faith. — CATENA Oecumenius : For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith. After he has arranged these things in this way, he adds to what has already been said another thing that leads to the showing of love, what is that? Victory (ὴν νίκην). For John says: you who establish yourselves as sons of God by love for your neighbor, you already have this that accompanies that excellent deed, namely, to conquer the world; For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. Then John adds victory, and what is the cause of victory, and he says that both agree with faith, namely, that which is towards God, which also born of God, has conquered and driven away all disbelief; neither Jew, nor Greek, nor Heretic can do anything against it. — Commentary on 1 John