Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 John 2:14

14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you , and ye have overcome the wicked one.

To the former sort he only repeateth what he had said before; supposing their greater Wisdom to need no more. [See L. Brugens. Not. in Bibl. sacr. of the Insertion of this clause;] only the Repetition importeth his earnest Desire they would again and again consider it. The other he also puts in mind of their active Strength, and Vigor, and of the Rootedness which the Gospel must now be supposed to have in them, whereby they were enabled to overcome the wicked one. And by all which Endowments they were all both enabled and obliged to comport the better with the following Precept, and its Enforcements.

Marginal references: Eph. 6.10.