But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things, so that it is not necessary to speak at greater length to these antichrists. By the word "unction" he refers to Antichrist, and also to Christ (the anointed One). See also what Christ Himself says, John 16:13.
But what is this "unction"? (1.) Œcumenius and S. Jerome on Habakkuk 3. and S. Cyril Alex. say "baptism," when we are anointed on our head. (2.) S. Cyril of Jerus. says, "the sacrament of confirmation," when we are anointed on our forehead. (3.) Em. Sa. says, "the profession of Christianity;" others the Christian faith, grace, the gift of wisdom and understanding; others the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. But they all come to the same point, for in these various ways you will learn all the duties and doctrines of Christianity, and to discern and avoid heretics as opposed to Christ. The word unction stands for the ointment or oil, not for the mere transient act of anointing. In the Greek it is χζίσμα. It h...
You have an unction from the holy one. You are sufficiently instructed by the grace and spirit of God against such false teachers. (Witham)
An unction That is, grace and wisdom from the Holy Spirit. (Challoner)
And you know all things, as to what you ought to believe and practise, and therefore I have not written to you as to ignorant persons. (Witham)
The true children of God's Church, remaining in unity, under the guidance of their lawful pastors, partake of the grace of the Holy Spirit, promised to the Church and her pastors; and have in the Catholic Church all necessary knowledge and instruction, so as to have no need to seek it elsewhere, since it can be only found in that society of which they are members. (Challoner)
They therefore who lie deny the Lord, and rob Him, not giving back to Him the deposit which they have received. For they received from Him a spirit free from falsehood.
R house is beautiful and serviceable when it has not been anointed? And what man, when he enters into this life or into the gymnasium, is not anointed with oil? And what work has either ornament or beauty unless it be anointed and burnished? Then the air and all that is under heaven is in a certain sort anointed by light and spirit; and are you unwilling to be anointed with the oil of God? Wherefore we are called Christians on this account, because we are anointed with the oil of God.
