it is God who bears witness to Him today through His Spirit in our hearts. Moreover, it is because (for, hoti ) the witness is divine, that we ought humbly to receive it, for if we receive the witness of men, when it consists of the evidence of two or three, we should certainly receive the witness of God which is itself three fold and which, because it is God’s, is greater than any man’s. The word, if, expresses not a doubt, but a fact: “we accept human testimony, but surely divine testimony is stronger” (NEB).________________________ Tom Olson, in the little paper Now, penned this couplet on the subject of pithy creeds. "You don’t get away with the mottoes you solve, for truth will come forth with a bounce. It is not the motto that hangs on the wall, but the motto you live that counts.”
and partly because “the water and the blood are no witnesses without Him; whereas He is independent of them, testifying both in them and out of them” (Alford). Verse 9. The importance of this verse is that it declares explicitly what has so far only been hinted, namely both the subject (God) and the object (Christ) of the witness. The Spirit, the water and the blood all bear witness to Christ, and the reason why they agree is that God Himself is behind them. The three witnesses form, in fact, a single di vine testimony to Jesus Christ, which God hath testified. The perfect tense indicates the abiding validity (in it self and through the Spirit) of God’s historical witness to Christ. I t is God who bore witness to His Son in his tory, in the water and the blood, and
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