Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Beseech (erwtw). For pray as in I John 5:16.
Lady (kuria). Vocative case and in the same sense as in II John 1:1.
As though I wrote (wv grafwn). Common idiom wv with the participle (present active) for the alleged reason.
New (kainhn). As in I John 2:7 f., which see.
We had (eixamen). Imperfect active (late -a form like eixan in Mark 8:7) of exw and note eixete with ap arxhv in I John 2:7. Not literary plural, John identifying all Christians with himself in this blessing.
That we love one another (ina agapwmen allhlouv). Either a final clause after erwtw as in John 17:15 or an object clause in apposition with entolhn, like I John 2:27; I John 3:23 and like verse II John 1:6.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 2 John 1:5:
1 John 3:23
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