1 John 5:20 (WEB)
We know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
Catechism · 1
“When he sends his Son into the world it will be "to bear witness to the truth": "We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, to know him who is true."” — Catechism footnote: I Jn 5:20; cf. Jn 17:3.
Fathers and councils · 17
Athanasius of Alexandria
- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.2Discourse III
“And John too, as he had learned, so he teaches this, writing in his Epistle, ‘And we are in the True, even in His Son Jesus Christ; This is the True God and eternal life.’” — editor's note: 1 John v. 20.
Read the whole comment - Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.3Discourse III
“…hath given us an understanding to know Him that is true, and we are in Him that is true, even in His Son Jesus Christ; this is the true God and eternal life’) and we are made sons through Him by adoption and grace, as partaking of His Spirit (for ‘as many as received Him,’ he says, ‘to them gave He power to become…” — editor's note: 1 John v. 20.
Read the whole comment “While he says here that ‘the Life,’ not ‘became,’ but ‘was with the Father,’ in the end of his Epistle he says the Son is the Life, writing, ‘And we are in Him that is True, even in His Son, Jesus Christ; this is the True God and Eternal Life.’” — editor's note: Ib. v. 20.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Mark
“He was known therefore to the devils, not in that He is eternal Life, [see 1 John 5:20, John 17:3] but by some temporal effects of His Power, which might be more clear to the angelic senses of even bad spirits than to the weakness of men.” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“For the Father being Very God begat the Son like unto Himself, Very God; not as teachers beget disciples, not as Paul says to some, For in Christ Jesus I begat you through the Gospel.” — editor's note: Athanasius (ad Episcopos Ægypti, § 13), referring to 1 John v. 20, This is the true (ἁληθινός) God, writes: “But these men (the Arians), as if in contradiction…
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“…holy Scriptures; namely, that the Son is by nature only-begotten of God, Word, Power, and sole Wisdom of the Father; that He is, as John said, ‘the true God,’ and, as Paul has written, ‘the brightness of the glory, and the express image of the person of the Father,’ the followers of Eusebius, drawn aside by their…” — editor's note: 1 Joh. v. 20
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Gregory the Great
“Hence John says, We know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding (1 Joh. v. 20).” — the author cites it
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Ambrose of Milan
“He is very God, and Life Eternal.”” — editor's note: 1 John v. 20.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Fellowship with God must be had, other hope of life eternal is none; now “God is Light, and in Him is no darkness at all:” now iniquities are darkness; by iniquities we are pressed down, that we cannot have fellowship with God: what hope have we then?” — editor's note: [Fellowship.—The primary object of the apostle’s communication in this epistle (1 John i. 3), is that his readers may have fellowship with the apostolic body,…
Read the whole comment“1 Joann. v. 20.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“This is the true God, and eternal life.”” — editor's note: 1 John v. 20
Read the whole comment“According to the form of God, “He is the True God, and eternal life;” according to the form of a servant, “He became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”—23.” — editor's note: 1 John v. 20
Read the whole comment“Since, therefore, the Word of God is the Son of God, and the Son of God is “the true God and eternal life,” as John says in his Epistle; so here, what else are we to acknowledge when the Lord says, “The word which I have spoken, the same shall judge him at the last…” — editor's note: 1 John v. 20
Read the whole comment“This is the True God and Everlasting Life.”” — editor's note: 1 John v. 20.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“He is true and is life eternal and our resurrection.” — editor's note: 1 John v. 20, the long interpolation, which resembles a creed, is only found twice elsewhere (Codex Toletanus and the so-called Speculum of Augustine), and,…
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Leo the Great
“And the Apostle John teaches us how this has been fulfilled, when he says, “We know that the Son of God is come, and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him that is true, and may be in Him that is true, even His Son,” and again, “let us therefore love God, because He first loved us.”” — editor's note: 1 John v. 20, and iv. 19 ( the latter loosely).
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Clement of Alexandria
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Cross-references · 23
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.18.
Cited together in Against the Arians III.2.
Cited together in Against the Arians III.2.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.18.
Cited together in Catechism §217.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Mark 1:23–28 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Mark 1:23–28 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Mark 1:23–28 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Mark 1:23–28 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Mark 1:23–28 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.18.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.18 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 90.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 90.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 90.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.18 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §217 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Catechism §217.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.18.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 90.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.18.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.18.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.18.