{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2004","native_reference":{"book_number":700,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":2,"verse_to":2},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Bede</b>: For the truth's sake, which dwells in us, etc. He says, we love you and yours for no other reason than for the truth of the faith, which always remains invincible in us, for we find that you also invincibly guard the same.<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Hilary of Arles</b>: By \"truth\" John is referring to the Holy Spirit, because love is always the work of the Spirit.<br/><i>— INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 2 JOHN</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: But where he said: \"what abides in us,\" that is, what is true and firm, he added: \"And it will be with us forever.\" (1 Jn. 3:24) Signifying the certain perseverance of the gift. For it happens that even those who have been confirmed in something are shaken again, because they have not rightly used the confirmation.<br/><i>— Commentary on 2 John</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"2e606b2ba034b40b38bf0aca6d4000d1f3b63145f03ee333670e4841ce3386a2","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2004,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"a40b5c3a6a35467d86defaeb0ed445081a8f0cbc882e7e25c166a84c2be1794f","translator":null,"work":null}