On the Greek text. The Greek throughout follows the standard critical text — uniform in its main wording across the modern editions (NA28, SBLGNT, THGNT), and itself an ancient, public-domain text; NA28's distinctively copyrighted critical apparatus is not reproduced.

The Second Epistle of John — Interlinear: Themes, Outlines & Translation Notes

A consolidated companion to the 2 John data set: the single chapter of 2 John (1) rendered as a six-tier Greek reverse-interlinear (Greek · gloss · parsing/case · syntax · semantic force · lexical note), with per-verse discourse analysis and a chapter argument-outline.

This document gathers the theme, the argument outline (the outline movements authored into each data file), and the translation / textual / exegetical notes (the text_note of each file, reproduced verbatim) — followed by a summary of the major translation and interpretive cruxes that were deliberately annotated rather than silently resolved. It is part of the same project as the Pauline volumes, James, 1–2 Peter, and 1 John; 2 John is the elder's brief charge to a household church to hold to truth and love and to bar the door to deceivers. The Greek follows the standard critical text (uniform across NA28 / SBLGNT / THGNT in its main wording, and itself an ancient public-domain text); the copyrighted NA28 apparatus is not reproduced.

Scope

Chapter	Verses	Words annotated	Outline movements
2 John 1	13	245	4
Total	13	245	4

Each annotated word carries Greek, a working gloss, color-coded grammatical case, parsing (Tense·Voice·Mood·Person·Number + lemma), a Wallace-style syntactic-function label, an aspectual semantic-force label (verbal forms), and a condensed lexical note.

The argument of the book

The major movements of this single-chapter letter, under which the verse-by-verse detail below unfolds. (Section divisions are interpretive; the more common analysis is generally followed.)

I · 1:1–3 — Greeting. The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom he loves in truth, with grace, mercy, and peace from the Father and the Son.
II · 1:4–6 — Walk in truth and love. Joy that her children walk in truth; the commandment held from the beginning — that we love one another and walk in his commandments.
III · 1:7–11 — Guard against deceivers. Many deceivers who deny Jesus Christ coming in the flesh have gone out; watch yourselves, abide in the teaching of Christ, and neither receive nor greet such a one.
IV · 1:12–13 — Closing. Much to write, but the elder hopes to come and speak face to face, that joy may be full; greetings from the children of the elect sister.

Chapter-by-chapter

2 John 1 — ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ Β′ Α′

Theme. The Elder writes to "the elect lady and her children" to bind truth and love inseparably — rejoicing that they walk in truth and urging the old commandment to love one another — while warning sharply against the many deceivers who deny Jesus Christ come in the flesh: such a one is not to be received or even greeted, lest the host share in his evil works.

Outline.

A · 1:1–3 — The elder to the elect lady and her children, in truth and love. The epistolary opening. The Elder writes to "the elect lady and her children" whom he loves "in truth" — and not he alone but all who have known the truth (1) — for the sake of the truth that abides in them and will be with them forever (2); grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, "in truth and love" (3). The doubled keywords of the whole letter — truth (ἀλήθεια) and love (ἀγάπη) — are sounded at once and held together throughout.
B · 1:4–6 — Joy at their walking in truth; the commandment to love one another. The body opens with joy: the Elder rejoices greatly to have found some of her children walking in truth, as commanded by the Father (4). He asks — not as writing a new commandment but the one held from the beginning — that they love one another (5); and love is defined as walking according to his commandments, the commandment heard from the beginning that they should walk in it (6). The interlocking definition (love → commandments, commandment → walk) binds truth, love, and obedience.
C · 1:7–11 — The warning against the deceivers who deny Christ come in the flesh. The burden of the letter. Many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ coming in the flesh — this is the deceiver and the antichrist (7); watch yourselves, that you do not lose what was worked for but receive a full reward (8). Everyone who runs ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ does not have God; the one who abides has both the Father and the Son (9). Therefore the practical sanction: if anyone comes not bearing this teaching, do not receive him into the house or even greet him (10), for the one who greets him shares in his evil works (11).
D · 1:12–13 — Closing: hoping to come face to face; greetings. Having much to write, the Elder will not do so with paper and ink, but hopes to come and speak mouth to mouth, that their joy may be made full (12); the children of her elect sister send their greetings (13). The letter closes as it opened — on the note of joy and the bond of the elect family.

Translation & textual notes. The Greek follows the standard critical text of 2 John, uniform in its main wording across the modern editions (NA28, SBLGNT, THGNT) and itself an ancient, public-domain text; NA28's distinctively copyrighted critical apparatus is not reproduced. 2 John is a single-chapter letter; its 13 verses are here numbered as '2 John 1' for consistency with the multi-chapter volumes. Verse punctuation, paragraphing, and capitalization are editorial and conventional. A few points are worth flagging without a marginal apparatus: at v.3 the editions read ἔσται μεθ' ἡμῶν ('will be with us,' printed here) with the best witnesses, against the later ὑμῶν ('with you'), and 'Lord Jesus Christ' over the shorter 'Jesus Christ'; at v.5 the address καινήν ('a new commandment') is rejected in favor of the better-attested word order, and the present γράφων / γράφω is read; at v.6 the editions divide trivially over the demonstrative; at v.7 the critical text reads the present participle ἐρχόμενον ('coming') of the standing confession, not the perfect of 1 John 4:2; at v.8 the better text reads ἀπολέσητε … εἰργασάμεθα … ἀπολάβητε ('that you may not lose what we worked for, but may receive,' printed here) against the variants ἀπολέσωμεν / εἰργάσασθε / ἀπολάβωμεν; at v.9 the editions read προάγων ('runs ahead') over παραβαίνων ('transgresses') of the later text; at v.12 the better text reads ἡ χαρὰ ἡμῶν ('our joy,' read here) against ὑμῶν. Orthographic variants (movable-ν, ι-subscript, the elided ἀπ' ἀρχῆς, the spelling of Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ) are not noted. The letter has 13 verses; none is legitimately omitted by the critical text.

Beyond the apparatus, note the letter's verbal architecture: the keywords ἀλήθεια ('truth,' vv.1 [×3], 2, 3, 4) and ἀγάπη/ἀγαπάω ('love,' vv.1, 3, 5, 6) are deliberately yoked; the Johannine verb μένω ('abide,' vv.2, 9 [×2]) and the refrain ἀπ' ἀρχῆς ('from the beginning,' vv.5, 6) bind the whole to the original gospel; and the joy that opens the body (ἐχάρην, v.4) returns at the close as the joy "made full" (πεπληρωμένη, v.12, the periphrastic perfect echoing 1 John 1:4). The confession-test of v.7 (ἐρχόμενον ἐν σαρκί) restates 1 John 4:2 with a present rather than perfect participle.

Major translation & exegetical cruxes

Where the Greek legitimately admits more than one rendering or reading, the point was flagged in the lexical notes and chapter text_notes rather than decided silently; the more common analysis was generally taken and the alternative noted. The principal cruxes in 2 John:

Reference	Crux	Discussion
1:1	ἐκλεκτῇ κυρίᾳ — "the elect lady"	The central interpretive crux: is the addressee a literal Christian woman ("elect lady," perhaps named "Kyria" or "Eklekte") or a personified local congregation? The corporate reading is taken here — the parallel "children" (vv.1, 4, 13) and the matching "your elect sister" (v.13, a sister church) fit a church and its members; the shift between singular (vv.4, 5, 13) and plural (vv.6, 8, 10, 12) address tells in the same direction. A literal woman remains grammatically possible.
1:7	ἐρχόμενον ἐν σαρκί — "coming in the flesh" (present ptc.)	The present participle ἐρχόμενον differs from the perfect ἐληλυθότα of 1 John 4:2: it is best read not of a future coming but as a timeless/standing confession — Jesus Christ as the one who comes (and has come) in the flesh — naming the incarnation as the abiding identity the deceivers deny.
1:9	τῇ διδαχῇ τοῦ Χριστοῦ — "the teaching of Christ"	The genitive may be subjective ("Christ's own teaching") or objective ("the teaching about Christ"); the objective sense fits the incarnational confession of v.7 (the apostolic doctrine concerning Christ), though the two are not sharply separable. To abandon it is to "not have God."
1:10–11	μὴ λαμβάνετε … χαίρειν μὴ λέγετε — refuse hospitality and greeting	The startling prohibition reflects the social weight of ancient hospitality and the greeting-formula χαίρειν: to lodge or greet an itinerant false teacher was to endorse and "share" (κοινωνεῖ, v.11) in his work. The command targets traveling propagandists of the antichrist heresy, not ordinary courtesy, and is bounded by the doctrinal danger of vv.7, 9.
1:12	ἡ χαρὰ ἡμῶν … πεπληρωμένη — "our joy made full"	The better witnesses read the first person ("our joy," over ὑμῶν, "your joy"), binding the Elder's joy to the readers'; the periphrastic perfect (ᾖ πεπληρωμένη) names a joy brought to its full and abiding measure, deliberately echoing 1 John 1:4 and John 15:11.

How the data set is organized

nt-interlinear/data/2john1.json — the durable scholarly content: one JSON object per chapter (reference, titles, text-note, outline, and verses with per-word annotation and per-verse discourse notes). The data set shares the nt-interlinear toolkit and schema with the Pauline volumes.
nt-interlinear/ — a chapter-agnostic renderer (stdlib-only HTML; headless-Chromium PDF) that turns any conforming data file into a six-tier interlinear document. Adding a chapter (or a book) requires no code changes.
Rendered artifacts — 2John1.html and .pdf under staticsite/2John/, linked from its index.html.

The interpretive tiers (syntactic function, semantic force, discourse structure, and the proposed argument outlines) are interpretive by nature; where readings legitimately differ, the more common analysis was generally chosen, and the lexical notes are condensed orientation rather than a substitute for a lexicon (e.g. BDAG) or a full commentary.