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John:3:18 @{
Is not judged } (\
ou krinetai \).
Present passive indicative .
Trust in Christ prevents condemnation ,
for he takes our place and pays the penalty for sin for all who put their case in his hands (
Romans:8:32f .|).
The believer in Christ as Saviour does not come into judgment (
John:5:24 |). {
Hath been judged already } (\
d
kekritai \).
Perfect passive indicative of \
krin \.
Judgment has already been passed on the one who refuses to believe in Christ as the Saviour sent by the Father ,
the man who is not willing to come to Christ for life (
5:40 |). {
Because he hath not believed } (\
hoti m
pepisteuken \).
Perfect active indicative of \
pisteu \,
has taken a permanent attitude of refusal .
Here \
hoti m \
states the reason subjectively as the judgment of the Judge in any such case (\
ho m
pisteu
n \
already mentioned )
while in strkjv @
1John:5:10 | \
hoti ou pepisteuken \
gives the reason objectively (\
ou \
instead of \
m \)
conceived as an actual case and no longer hypothetical .
See strkjv @
1:12 |
for \
eis to onoma \
with \
pisteu \ (
believing on the name )
and strkjv @
1:14 |
for \
monogenous \ (
only begotten )
and also strkjv @
3:16 |.
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John:3:19 @{
And this is the judgment } (\
haut
de estin h
krisis \).
A thoroughly Johannine phrase for sequence of thought (
15:12 ;
strkjv @
17:3 ;
strkjv @
1John:1:5 ;
strkjv @
5:11 ,
14 ;
strkjv @
3John:1:6 |).
It is more precisely the process of judging (\
kri-sis \)
rather than the result (\
kri-ma \)
of the judgment . "
It is no arbitrary sentence ,
but the working out of a moral law " (
Bernard ). {
The light is come } (\
to ph
s el
luthen \).
Second perfect active indicative of \
erchomai \,
a permanent result as already explained in the Prologue concerning the Incarnation (
1:4 ,
5 ,
9 ,
11 |).
Jesus is the Light of the world . {
Loved darkness } (\
gap
san to skotos \).
Job :(
Job:24:13 |)
spoke of men rebelling against the light .
Here \
to skotos \,
common word for moral and spiritual darkness (
1Thessalonians:5:5 |),
though \
h
skotia \
in strkjv @
John:1:5 |. "
Darkness "
is common in John as a metaphor for the state of sinners (
8:12 ;
strkjv @
12:35 ,
46 ;
strkjv @
1John:1:6 ;
strkjv @
2:8 ,
9 ,
11 |).
Jesus himself is the only moral and spiritual light of the world (
8:12 |)
as he dared claim to his enemies .
The pathos of it all is that men fall in love with the darkness of sin and rebel against the light like denizens of the underworld , "
for their works were evil (\
pon
ra \)."
When the light appears ,
they scatter to their holes and dens . \
Pon
ros \ (
from \
ponos \,
toil , \
pone \,
to toil )
is used of the deeds of the world by Jesus (
7:7 |).
In the end the god of this world blinds men '
s eyes so that they do not see the light (
2Corinthians:4:4 |).
The fish in the Mammoth Cave have no longer eyes ,
but only sockets where eyes used to be .
The evil one has a powerful grip on the world (
1John:5:19 |).