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Bible Analysis
1 John 1:5
Textus Receptus (Stephanus 1550)
(See Variants Below)
King James Bible (Oxford 1769)
Textus Receptus Support:
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Variants
Both the Stephanus 1550 and the Beza 1598 Textus Receptus do not fully support this verse. In many cases the verse is supported from either the Bishop's Bible, Tyndale Bible or the Erasmus reading.
Variant: Read "promise" instead of "message."
Greek-English Dictionary
compare G5316 and G5346); luminousness (in the widest application natural or artificial abstract or concrete literal or figurative)
1. light
a. the light
1. emitted by a lamp
2. a heavenly light such as surrounds angels when they appear on earth
b. anything emitting light
1. a star
2. fire because it is light and sheds light
3. a lamp or torch
c. light, i.e brightness
1. of a lamp
2. metaph.
a. God is light because light has the extremely delicate, subtle, pure, brilliant quality
b. of truth and its knowledge, together with the spiritual purity associated with it
c. that which is exposed to the view of all, openly, publicly
d. reason, mind
1. the power of understanding esp. moral and spiritual truth
of the New Testament 1889
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.