1 JOHN 2:7 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.”
Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard — the commandment is simultaneously old (from the beginning, arche) and eternally present. The word (logos) precedes and grounds the commandment; hearing precedes doing.
Church Fathers on 1 John 2:7
“Dearly beloved, I write unto you no new commandment, but the old commandment which you had from the beginning.” 1 John 2:7 What commandment calls he “old? Which you had,” says he, “from the beginning. Old” then, in this regard, that you have already heard it: otherwise he will contradict the Lord, where He says, “A new commandment give I unto you, that you love one another.” John 13:34 But why an “old” commandment? Not as pertaining to the old man. But why? “Which you had…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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