1 John 5:11

And this is the record,.... The sum and substance of it, with respect to the person of Christ, and the security of salvation in him, who is the true God, and eternal life:

that God hath given to us…

And this is the record - This is the sum, or the amount, of the testimony (μαρτυρία marturia) which God has given respecting him. That God hath given to us eternal life - Has provided, through the…

This is the record - The great truth to which the Spirit, the water, and the blood bear testimony. God hath given us eternal life - a right to endless glory, and a meetness for it. And this life is in…

In those words we may observe,

I. The privilege and stability of the real Christian: He that believeth on the Son of God, hath been prevailed with unfeignedly to cleave to him for salvation, hath the…

And this is the record Better, as R.V., And the witness is this, as in 1Jn 5:5: this is what the external witness of God, when it is internally appropriated by the believer, consists in; viz. the…