1 John 2:15
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.
अध्ययन टिप्पणी
Study Note
The command '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' presents love of world and love of Father as mutually exclusive — an either/or that admits no middle position. James 4:4's 'friendship of the world is enmity with God' uses identical logic, suggesting this was a foundational axiom of apostolic ethical teaching. The critical interpretive question is what John means by 'world' (kosmos): not creation (which God loves in John 3:16) but the organised system of human life organized in opposition to God — the social, cultural, and ideological order that values what God does not value. Augustine's distinction between 'use' and 'enjoyment' (uti vs. frui) — using temporal things versus finding final rest in them — is a philosophical elaboration of the same distinction John draws between transient and eternal objects of love.
अन्य अनुवाद
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.
Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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