Matthew Poole and continuators on 3 John 1:11

11 Beloved▪ follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doth good , is of God : but he that doth evil hath not seen God .

[non-Latin text not transcribed]: By following here he means Imitation, i. e. the Deformity of evil appearing in the Practice of some, and the Beauty of true Goodness in others, (Examples being given of both sorts, v. 9, and 12.) he exhorts to decline the former, and imitate the other; and enforces the Exhortation by the weightiest Arguments.

A Doer of good, one made up of Kind[illegible: 1 letter]ess and E[illegible: 2 letters]ignity (as the Context draws the sense to that special kind of Goodness, [non-Latin text not transcribed] & [non-Latin text not transcribed], signifie doing well or ill, from a fixed prevailing habit, 1 Iohn 3.7, 8.

Is ally'd to Heaven, born of God, his Off-spring.

An evil Doer on the other hand, such a one as is a Composition of Spite, Envy, and Malice, is a meer Stranger to him, hath not been, or known, or had to do with him.

Marginal references: Psal. 37.27. Isa. 1.16. 1 Pet. 3.11.