Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on 1 John 4:4
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1 John4:4
4. Ye--emphatical: Ye who confess Jesus: in contrast to "them," the false teachers.
overcome them--(1Jo 5:4, 5); instead of being "overcome and brought into (spiritual) bondage" by them (2Pe 2:19). Joh 10:8, 5, "the sheep did not hear them": "a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers."
he that is in you--God, of whom ye are.
he that is in the word--the spirit of Antichrist, the devil, "the prince of this world."
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