 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1875 - 378 str.
...knowledge of the saints ? St. John, in his First Epistle, speaks clearly enough : " Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God ; and it hath not yet appeared...what we shall be. We know that when he shall appear, we shall be like to him ; because we shall see him as he is" (iii., 2.) And St. Paul : " We see now... | |
 | Hugo Rahner - 1971 - 438 str.
...already possesses eternal life, he has already entered into the ogdoad though it is still invisible: "It hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know, that, when he shall appear, we shall be like to him: because we shall see him as he is" (I John 3. 2). Yet what we possess during... | |
 | Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Vernon Joseph Bourke - 1974 - 278 str.
...show forth to Him who is incapable of change. Yet what are we told even of ourselves? Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God, and it hath not yet appeared...-what we shall be. We know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like to Him, because we shall see Him as He is. [I John 3:2] There is obviously, then,... | |
 | Saint Augustine (of Hippo), Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.) - 1984 - 550 str.
...formed His nature, and this is what John said, if he is correctly understood: "Dearly beloved, we are the sons of God, and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know that when He shall appear, we shall be like to Him, because we shall see Him as He is" (1 Jn 3:2), not as men saw Him when He... | |
 | Saint Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino - 1989 - 422 str.
...our divine exemplar; for this reason Blessed John writes, "Now we are the children of God, and it has not yet appeared what we shall be. We know that, when he appears, we shall be like to him, for we shall see him just as he is" (1 Jn 3:2). O my soul, if you... | |
 | Charles Journet - 1996 - 148 str.
...swept away. Faith and hope will give place to possession and the beatific vision. "Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God, and it hath not yet appeared...what we shall be. We know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like to him, because we shall see him as he is" (i Jn 3: 2). It is through Christ's sacred... | |
 | Thomas Aquinas, Anton C. Pegis - 1997 - 1222 str.
...that we shall see God, and that our divine sonship will be made manifest, according to / John iii. 2 : We are now the sons of God; and it hath not yet appeared...what we shall be. We know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like to Him, because we shall see Him as He is. Therefore these rewards belong to the future... | |
 | Robert E. Meagher - 1998 - 352 str.
...3.2). We are already, and we shall be something. What shall we be beyond what we are? Listen: It has not yet appeared what we shall be. We know that, when he has appeared, we shall be like him. How? For we shall see him as he is (1 Jn. 3.2). A great promise;... | |
 | M. F. Toal - 2000 - 502 str.
...when all these things have passed away, that shall happen to us of which John tells: Dearly Beloved, we are now the sons of God; and it hath not yet appeared...what we shall be. We know that when he shall appear, we shall be like to him; because we shall see him as he is (I Jn. iii. 2). Prepare for this vision.... | |
 | M. F. Toal - 2000 - 502 str.
...the Father, when the same Apostle, John, whose Gospel this is, said in his Epistle: Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God; and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be (i Jn. iii. 2). This vision is not for this life, but for the future; not temporal, but eternal. Now... | |
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Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God ; and it hath not yet appeared what" we shall be. We know, that, when he shall appear, we shall be like to him : because we shall see him as he is. 
