Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 John 2:15
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1 John2:15
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him .
What he here means by the forbidden Object of our Love, must be gathered from his own Explication, v. 16. the Love it self forbidden, in reference thereto, is that excess thereof, whereby any adhere to terrene things, as their best good; wherewith, as he adds, any sincere Love to God is inconsistent, as Matth. 6.24. Luke 14.33. A Consideration so awful and tremendous, that it is not strange the Precept it enforces, should have so solemn and urgent an Introduction.
Marginal references: James 4.4.
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