Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 John 5:21

21 Little children, keep your selves from idols *. Amen.

i. e. From those idolatrous Communions with the Gentiles in their Worship and Festivals in their Temples, which these Pseudo-christians had Latitude enough for, as appears by the Apostle St Paul's Discourses, 1 Cor. 8. and 10.14. (especially if any danger did urge) wherein, instead of that Communion with the Father and the Son, which, ch. 1.3. he was inviting them to, they should have Fellowship with De[illegible: 1 letter]ils, as that other Apostle tells his Corinthians, 1 Cor. 10.20, 21. And he might also have reference to the peculiar Idolatries, which this sort of Men are noted to have been guilty of towards their great Sect-masters.