1 John 4:14
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
הערת לימוד
Study Note
The apostolic 'we have seen and do testify' (hēmeis tetheametha kai martyroumen) appeals to eyewitness testimony in the Johannine tradition — the same language deployed in 1 John 1:1–3 and John 1:14 — to ground the soteriological claim that the Father sent the Son as Savior of the world. The title Savior of the world (sōtēr tou kosmou) appears only twice in the New Testament (here and John 4:42), both in Johannine contexts, and challenges the Roman imperial cult's use of 'savior' for emperors and deities. The universalism of 'world' (kosmos) here stands in tension with the Johannine dualism of the believing community versus the world-as-opposition, demonstrating that the same term carries different valences. Theologically the verse grounds mission in mission — the church's sending flows from the Father's sending of the Son.
תרגומים נוספים
And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father hath sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
And we--we have seen and do testify, that the Father hath sent the Son--Saviour of the world;
And we have seen and give witness that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
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