1 John 2:19 (WEB)
They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
Fathers and councils · 18
Cyril of Jerusalem
“…and the rest: concerning whom also it is written, They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us.” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 19.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“…whom John also in his epistle says, “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 19.
Read the whole comment“They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 18, 19.
Read the whole comment“They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 18, 19.
Read the whole comment“The Apostle John execrates and severely assails these, when he says, “They went forth from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, surely they would have continued with us.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 19.
Read the whole comment“Of this same thing in the Epistle of John: “They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would doubtless have remained with us.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 19.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For that they should “become few,” “They went out from us, but they were not of us.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 19.
Read the whole comment“But let us not be made sad: “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 19.
Read the whole comment“Why then now against the house of the Lord with dissent, but that “they have gone out from us, but they were not of us?”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 19.
Read the whole comment“For it is not without reason that John, the same apostle as wrote this Apocalypse, says in his epistle regarding certain persons, “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have remained with us.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 19.
Read the whole comment“They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 18, 19.
Read the whole comment“To enter indeed into the Church by Christ the door, is eminently good; but to go out of the Church, as this same John the evangelist saith in his epistle, “They went out from us, but they were not of us,” is certainly otherwise than good.” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 19.
Read the whole comment“For how else can this “one of you” be true, of which the Lord so testified, and said, if that is true which the writer of this very Gospel says in his Epistle, “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us”?” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 19.
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Leo the Great
“These men seem indeed at first to be of us, but they are not of us: “for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 19.
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Jerome
“The day then will come when the storehouses of the Church shall be opened and the Lord will bring forth the vessels of wrath; and, as they depart, the saints will say, “They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 19.
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Tertullian
“If they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 19. [i.e., with the Apostolic Churches. See Cap. xx, infra.]
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Clement of Alexandria
“Nam si fuissent ex nobis, permansissent utique nobiscum.”” — editor's note: 1 John ii. 18, 19.
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Cross-references · 28
Cited together in The City of God XX.8.
Cited together in The City of God XX.8.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 61.
Cited together in Letters Letter 22.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 61.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 69.
Cited together in Letters Letter 22.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 61.
Cited together in Letters Letter 22.
Cited together in The City of God XX.8.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 61.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 61.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 61.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 61.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 61.
Cited together in The City of God XX.19.
Cited together in The City of God XX.19.
Cited together in The City of God XX.19.
Cited together in The City of God XX.19.
Cited together in The City of God XX.19.
Cited together in The City of God XX.19.
Cited together in The City of God XX.19.
Cited together in The City of God XX.19.
Cited together in The City of God XX.19.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.79.
Cited together in Letters Letter 22.
Cited together in Letters Letter 22.