1john5:6 recalls the baptism of Jesus and the crossI also said you wouldn't "get it", until you understood why John said, not by water only, but water and blood. Why does John say that?
Being born of God is the context
"even" Jesus not by water only (john3:5) water and blood and the spirit bearing witness
Blood Acts 20:28
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Water /spirit
John 1:33-34
And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
St Ambrose interprets 1john5:6 this way
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