1 John 2:3 Douay-Rheims

And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments.

Glossa Ordinaria

Medieval

And in this we know. To know or to recognize is not always said on account of acquaintance, but on account of experience and union with another thing. We know God when we are united to him. He who so knows, keeps his commandments. If we observe his commandments. We ought to attend to our frailty, we ought in our sins to seek an advocate; and that we may obtain him, let us labour at keeping the commandments, through which one comes to the knowledge of him.

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1 John 2:3

English is machine-translated from the public-domain Latin (Glossa Ordinaria, Migne, Patrologia Latina 113-114, 1852; digital text from Corpus Corporum, mlat.uzh.ch), since no public-domain English translation exists. It is not a scholarly translation. Please report errors.

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