Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Herein is love—love in the abstract: love, in its highest ideal, is herein. The love was all on God's side, none on ours.
not that we loved God—though so altogether worthy of love.
he loved us—though so altogether unworthy of love. The Greek aorist expresses, Not that we did any act of love at any time to God, but that He did the act of love to us in sending Christ.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 John 4:10:
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Isaiah 53:10
Hosea 14:4
Ephesians 1:6
1 John 2:2
1 John 4:2
1 John 4:7
1 John 4:7
1 John 4:9
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