What Does 1 John 2:18 Mean in the King James?
Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The “last hour” is already present: its sign is the opposition to the Anointed that has appeared among you.
THE MEANING
The verse names this as the last hour because many antichrists are already present. What is expected is also discernible now, in opposition to the Anointed one.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The last hour does not depend on a single future arrival before it can be recognized; the verse says many antichrists are already here.
THE ROOT
ἀντίχριστος
antíchristos
GROWS FROM
χρίω (chriō), joined with ἀντί (anti)
χρίω means to anoint; ἀντί means against or in place of.
“antichrist” in this verse is antíchristos. The word joins ἀντί (anti, against or in place of) with χριστός (christos, the anointed one). It names opposition to, or a counterclaim in place of, the Anointed, and the verse says this opposition is already present in many forms.
ALSO GROWS
christos: Anointed one
χριστός
This is the word at the heart of “antichrist”; the opposition is defined in relation to the Anointed.
chrisma: Anointing
χρῖσμα
This shares the anointing root and shows that the word concerns the anointed identity, not merely a generic opponent.
THE PATTERN
The last boundary is recognized through what is already being disclosed in the present.
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.THE THREAD
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.This verse repeats ἀντίχριστος (antíchristos, against or in place of the Anointed) and says its spirit is already in the world. It opens 1 John 2:18 further: the expected opposition is present in many forms now.
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