18 Children, it is the last hour, and just as you heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. We know from this that it is the last hour.
18 Little childrenD9366, it is [the] last hourD9367, and, according as ye have heard that antichrist comeD9368s, even now there have come many antichrists, whence we know that it is [the] last hour.
children - Paidion (diminutive); it has reference to growth. It stands in contrast to 'young men' and 'fathers.' hour - John uses 'hour' continually in the sense of 'time,' as John 5.35, 'a season.' It is properly a given point of time. With John it is constantly a period characterized by one thing, and hence looked at as only one time. As we say 'the hour of Napoleon's greatness.' come - 'There have come' (ginomai. John 1.17) is not from the same word as 'comes' in this verse. It is what did not exist before, but begins or becomes. 'There have come' I believe nearest the sense. The perfect tense conveys the thought that they still exist.
18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
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