1 JOHN 2:8 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 2
“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.”
At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining — the commandment is new in its christological renewal and pneumatic intensification (en humīn). The passing darkness and shining light situate the readers in the eschatological transition. Newness and oldness both apply: the command is eternal yet historically renewed.
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