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ELECT LADY

A title appearing only in 2 John 1, 5. The “elect lady” (Gk. eklektḗ kyría) is said to have children and an elect sister, who also has children. Some scholars identify her as a house church leader whom “the elder” is writing to encourage and warn not to receive deceivers into her house church. In that case, some of her children are grown and her physical sister lives in the city from which the elder is writing. Most scholars now believe the “elect lady” is a church, the “children” being the members of the church. The “sister” would then be the church in the city from which “the elder” is writing.

Peter H. Davids






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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