Oecumenius, on 1John 4:4

“You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”

“You are from God, little children, and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. Whereby he gave knowledge of the Lord to the prophets and apostles: he adds: But you, beloved, since you are of God, have overcome them, namely the false prophets. How? Because the God who is in you is greater than he who is in the world, according to whom the false prophets chose to live. Then John adds another sign of their false prophets, which also greatly saddened the simpler believers. For it was likely that some of these found it hard to accept, while they saw that many held them in esteem, but they themselves were despised, and John said: "Do not be affected by sorrow if you are despised by many; they are indeed accepted by these."”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.