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Not a New Rule
Commentators explain that John is not introducing a novel or trendy teaching. By calling the commandment "old," he emphasizes that the call to love one another has been the core of the gospel message from the very beginning of their faith. This served to ground his readers in foundational truth and guard them against false teachers who might promote new doctrines.
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1 John
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Albert Barnes
On 1 John 2:7
18th Century
Theologian
Brethren, I write no new commandment to you. That is, what I am now instructing is not new. It is the same doctrine which you have always …
AT Robertson
On 1 John 2:7
Beloved (αγαπητο). First instance of this favourite form of address in these Epistles (3:2,21; 4:1,7; 3 John 1,2,5,11)…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 John 2:3–8
19th Century
Bishop
The fourth inference from the doctrine that God is Light analyzes more accurately the general expression of 1 John 1:7, walking in …
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 John 2:7–9
19th Century
Preacher
Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 John 2:7
The affectionate term “dear friends” (lit., “beloved”; GK 28) reminds us that the author is looking in two directions at once: (1) He is setting fo…
John Gill
On 1 John 2:7
17th Century
Pastor
Brethren, I write no new commandment to you
Some understand this of faith, which this apostle calls a commandment, (…
Matthew Henry
On 1 John 2:3–11
17th Century
Minister
What knowledge of Christ can that be which does not see that He is most worthy of our entire obedience? A disobedient life shows there is neither r…