8Again, 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-11)The seventh verse may be supposed either to look backward to what immediately preceded (and then it is walking as Christ walked that is here represented as no new, but an old commandment ; it is that which the apostles would certainly inculcate wherever they brought Christ’s gospel), or to look forward to what the apostle is now going to recommend, and that is the law of fraternal love; this is th…
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