Charles Spurgeon Commentary 1 John 2:8

"Again, a new commandment write I unto you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shineth." — 1 John 2:8 (ASV)

Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

What is new in the gospel, in one sense, is not new in another; for, though John was about to write what he called a new commandment, yet, at the same time, he was writing something which was not novel, something which was not grafted upon the gospel, but which grows naturally out of it, namely, the law of love.