1 JOHN 2:8 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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.
Church Fathers on 1 John 2:8
“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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