Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
But—Greek, "And." He here states the means which they as believers have wherewith to withstand. Antichrists (I John 2:18), namely, the chrism (so the Greek: a play upon similar sounds), or "anointing unguent," namely, the Holy Spirit (more plainly mentioned further on, as in John's style, I John 3:24; I John 4:13; I John 5:6), which they ("ye" is emphatical in contrast to those apostates, I John 2:19) have "from the Holy One, Christ" (John 1:33; John 3:34; John 15:26; John 16:14): "the righteous" (I John 2:1), "pure" (I John 3:3), "the Holy One" (Acts 3:14) "of God"; Mark 1:24. Those anointed of God in Christ alone can resist those anointed with the spirit of Satan, Antichrists, who would sever them from the Father and from the Son. Believers have the anointing Spirit from the Father also, as well as from the Son; even as the Son is anointed therewith by the Father. Hence the Spirit is the token that we are in the Father and in the Son; without it a man is none of Christ. The material unguent of costliest ingredients, poured on the head of priests and kings, typified this spiritual unguent, derived from Christ, the Head, to us, His members. We can have no share in Him as Jesus, except we become truly Christians, and so be in Him as Christ, anointed with that unction from the Holy One. The Spirit poured on Christ, the Head, is by Him diffused through all the members. "It appears that we all are the body of Christ, because we all are anointed: and we all in Him are both Christ's and Christ, because in some measure the whole Christ is Head and body."
and—therefore.
ye know all things—needful for acting aright against Antichrist's seductions, and for Christian life and godliness. In the same measure as one hath the Spirit, in that measure (no more and no less) he knows all these things.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 John 2:20:
Isaiah 29:12
Isaiah 54:13
Jeremiah 31:34
Micah 5:5
Zechariah 4:14
1 Corinthians 2:10
2 Corinthians 1:21
1 Thessalonians 1:6
1 Thessalonians 4:9
1 John 2:26
1 John 2:27
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