ACC ~ 1 John 2 v7

THE WORD YOU HAVE HEARD. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: You had the commandment through the law and the prophets. ADUMBRATIONS.

NO NEW COMMANDMENT. DIDYMUS THE BLIND: Some people were apparently objecting that the Evangelist’s teaching was a new thing, and so he had to insist that this was not so. COMMENTARY ON 1 JOHN.

THE COMMAND. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: John is talking here about love. The commandment was not new, because long before that time it had been proclaimed by the prophets. CATENA.

FROM THE BEGINNING. ANDREAS: Someone may ask how it was possible for the hearers of this letter to have known the commandment from the beginning, since they were not Jews (as appears from the end of the letter, where they are told to keep themselves from idols). But is there not a commandment which is old, which has existed from the beginning and which all people everywhere have heard? For everybody, even domestic animals, naturally loves those who are close to them. CATENA.

BOTH OLD AND NEW. BEDE: God’s commandment to love was old because it had been around since the beginning of time, but it was also new, because once the darkness was taken away, it poured the desire for new light into our hearts. ON 1 JOHN.

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