Второе послание Апостола Иоанна Богослова
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When and where the second and third messages were written is unknown.
The first of them is inscribed to a private person - a Christian lady and her children. The apostle does not even call himself, hiding under the name of “elder,” perhaps avoiding the danger to which all Christians were then exposed. The message calls for brotherly love and warns against false teachers.
The third message is also from the “elder”. Also inscribed to a private person.
Elder (elder of the church) - to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who have known the truth,
for the sake of the truth that abides in us - and it will be with us forever.
May grace, mercy, and peace be with you from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.
I rejoiced greatly that I found your children walking in the truth, as we received the commandment from the Father.
And now I ask you, lady, not prescribing to you as a new commandment, but the one that we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
This love lies in our living according to His commandments. This is a commandment - and you have heard it from the beginning - to live as it commands.
Many seducers have already come into the world, not confessing Christ who came in the flesh: such a person is a seducer and Antichrist.
Take care so that you do not lose everything that we have worked on, but achieve the perfect reward.
Whoever transgresses the teaching of Christ and does not abide in it, there is no God in him; but he who abides in the teaching of Christ has the Father and the Son.
Whoever comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not welcome him into your home and do not say hello to him:
whoever greets such a person with greetings communicates with him in his evil deeds.
I have a lot to write to you, but I don’t want to write it in writing or in ink, but I hope to come to you and speak mouth to mouth, so that your joy may be filled.
Greetings to you from the children of your chosen sister. Amen.
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