<p>2:14 <em>I have written to you fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning- </em>This repeats what is said in :13, perhaps to emphasize that spiritual maturity is in having known the Lord Jesus many years and continuing in that relationship with Him</p><p><em>I have written to you young men, because you are strong and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one</em>- These new converts had overcome the Jewish Satan or &ldquo;wicked one&rdquo; trying to especially subvert young converts, both in years and spiritual maturity, just as it had tried to subvert the disciples during the Lord&rsquo;s ministry (Mt. 13:19 the wicked one catches away the word sown in the hearts of new converts). The Lord clearly described the Jewish world as the evil one in Jn. 3:19; 7:7; 17:15. Their strength was because the <em>logos</em> of God, the Lord Jesus, abode in them. Whilst we should love and meditate upon the Scriptures, this is not the reference of God's <em>logos</em> in John. The prologues to both the Gospel and the letters make it clear that the reference is to the Lord Jesus. It was the Lord personally who overcame the Jewish world (Jn. 16:33). His victory is counted to all believers in Him; the parallel is between &quot;the evil one&quot; and &quot;the world&quot;, rather than to any superhuman personal being called 'satan'. The allusion in this verse is also to the prologue to the Gospel, where we read that the darkness of the Jewish world had not overcome the light (Jn. 1:5). Those in the light, in whom the <em>logos</em>, the spirit of the Lord Jesus, abides, had overcome the darkness of their world. The parallel with :13 is perhaps to show that they had not overcome the world in their own strength, but through the Lord's indwelling.</p>