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1st John Bible Nerd-Study - Week 38

 Week 38—1st John Bible Nerd-Study

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Week 38 - Moving along into manna and memory of 4:11-14 + Robert Law + normal translation.

We've read through 1st John now with a good number of different translations. It's probably been enough to catch most of the possibilities though it's still interesting to see how other translations do this. If you have a suggestion for a new one let me know. I have a few more odd ones to share, but I also like to just use the normal translation that you use as a default. 


I like even the very title of this classic commentary. He brings out how throughout 1 John there are so many tests given to show that you have eternal life or are begotten or are in fellowship etc. "if we say" "he that saith" etc. 

I also noticed that he purposed to group some subjects instead of the typical talk through each verse in its order. I believe this is a key way of studying as well. We should see the flow as we read everything in order, but in 1st John, we need to also look into everything that's there on love, everything that's mentioning sin and righteousness, etc. It's kind of like what we talked about with searching out keywords in the book, but now it's key topics. So some of this commentary is organized in that way. 

As with all of these larger commentaries, try to purpose to study one section that interests you or that you've been "mastering" in your study. Or take up the beginning parts of the commentary to get a sense of it. 


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