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# General Information:
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Here the word "brother" refers to a fellow Christian.
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# The one who says
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"Anyone who says" or "Someone who claims." This does not refer to a specific person.
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# he is in the light
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This is a picture of living right. When people do what is right, they can do it in the light and not hide in the dark. AT: "he does what is right" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# is in the darkness
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This is a picture of living sinfully. When people do what is wrong, they like to hide in the dark. AT: "is in the darkness, doing what is evil" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# there is no occasion for stumbling in him
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"nothing will cause him to stumble." The word "stumbling" is a metaphor that means to fail spiritually or morally. AT: "nothing will cause him to sin" or "he will not fail to do what is pleasing to God" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# is in the darkness and walks in the darkness
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"Walks" here is an idiom for "lives." This same idea is said twice to bring attention to how evil it is to hate a fellow believer. AT: "is living in darkness" or "is living in the darkness of sin" or "is in the darkness and lives in the darkness" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# he does not know where he is going
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This is a picture of the believer who is not living as a Christian should be living. AT: "he does not know what he should do" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# the darkness has blinded his eyes
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"the darkness has made him unable to see." Darkness is a metaphor for sin or evil. AT: "sin has made it impossible for him to understand the truth" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/light]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/brother]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/love]] |