Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Hereby—"Herein." The token vouchsafed to us of God's dwelling (Greek, "abide") in us, though we see Him not, is this, that He hath given us "of His Spirit" (I John 3:24). Where the Spirit of God is, there God is. ONE Spirit dwells in the Church: each believer receives a measure "of" that Spirit in the proportion God thinks fit. Love is His first-fruit (Galatians 5:22). In Jesus alone the Spirit dwelt without measure (John 3:34).
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