Expositor’s Bible

“Little children, keep yourselves from idols”: why should a letter that declares God is light close with so stark a warning?

In this late-19th-century exposition, William Alexander places St. John’s letters amid the spiritual disputes of the early Church, tracing their setting toward Ephesus and the shadowy mysticism of Gnostic belief. Against the notion that the First Epistle is merely a collection of gentle thoughts on love, Alexander finds a mind precise enough to meet error with carefully drawn truth. He follows John’s path beside Peter’s, asking how their sharply different natures shaped their work—and what kind of danger called forth that final command. What, exactly, were these believers being warned to turn from?

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