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The Second Letter of John is a single short chapter from a writer who calls himself ‘the Elder’ to ‘the elect lady and her children’, usually understood as a Christian community. It urges its readers to walk in truth and in mutual love, and warns them not to receive teachers who deny that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. The Latin text is the Vulgate, the late fourth-century revision of the Old Latin translation of the Greek.

With 3 John it is one of the two shortest books of the Bible. Tradition assigned it to the apostle John, though already in antiquity some attributed it to a separate John the Elder, and its acceptance into the canon was gradual. Its themes of truth, love and the Incarnation echo the Gospel of John and the First Letter, and it gives a glimpse of the divisions within the early Johannine communities.

About this edition. The Latin text comes from the Lasciva Roma collection of additional Latin texts (edition: Jerome's 405 a.d., Latin Vulgate These files were produced following modern scholarship of the available Vulgate mss. The apocryphal books are prefixed with…), licensed CC BY-NC-SA. Every word has been analyzed with LatinCy, a neural language model for Latin — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from Lewis & Short’s A Latin Dictionary.

Latin · Early Christian Writings
2 John
Vulgate · every word parsed
1.1
senior electae dominae et natis eius quos ego diligo in ueritate et non ego solus sed et omnes qui cognouerunt ueritatem
1.2
propter ueritatem quae permanet in nobis et nobiscum erit in aeternum
1.3
sit nobiscum gratia misericordia pax a Deo Patre et a Christo Iesu Filio Patris in ueritate et caritate
1.4
gauisus sum ualde quoniam inueni de filiis tuis ambulantes in ueritate sicut mandatum accepimus a Patre
1.5
et nunc rogo te domina non tamquam mandatum nouum scribens tibi sed quod habuimus ab initio ut diligamus alterutrum
1.6
et haec est caritas ut ambulemus secundum mandata eius hoc mandatum est ut quemadmodum audistis ab initio in eo ambuletis
1.7
quoniam multi seductores exierunt in mundum qui non confitentur Iesum Christum uenientem in carne hic est seductor et antichristus
1.8
uidete uosmet ipsos ne perdatis quae operati estis sed ut mercedem plenam accipiatis
1.9
omnis qui praecedit et non manet in doctrina Christi Deum non habet qui permanet in doctrina hic et Filium et Patrem habet
1.10
si quis uenit ad uos et hanc doctrinam non adfert nolite recipere eum in domum nec haue ei dixeritis
1.11
qui enim dicit illi haue communicat operibus illius malignis
1.12
plura habens uobis scribere nolui per cartam et atramentum spero enim me futurum apud uos et os ad os loqui ut gaudium uestrum plenum sit
1.13
salutant te filii sororis tuae electae
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Text: Perseus Digital Library, licensed CC BY-SA. Dictionary: Lewis & Short (Perseus, CC BY-SA). Morphology: LatinCy — machine parsing, corrected against the AGDT & PROIEL treebanks and Morpheus.
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