Robert S. Candlish, The First Epistle of John Expounded in a Series of Lectures, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1870), ch. II, "The Joy of the Lord, and Its Fulness" (1 John 1:4), p. 35.

Surely this joy of the Lord, as it is thus intimately associated;—first with obedience,—secondly with prayer,—thirdly with the study of the divine character,—and fourthly with the cultivation of Christian communion;—is n…