Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Message (aggelia). In N.T. only here and I John 1:5, but epaggelia (promise) fifty-one times.
From the beginning (ap arxhv). See I John 1:1 for this phrase and I John 2:7 for the idea. They had the message of love for the brotherhood from the beginning of the gospel and it goes back to the time of Cain and Abel (verse I John 3:12).
That we should love one another (ina agapwmen allhlouv). Sub-final clause (content of the aggelia) with ina and present active subjunctive. John repeats the message of I John 2:7 f.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 John 3:11:
John 6:64
1 John 1:5
1 John 2:8
1 John 3:23
1 John 4:11
Jude 1:11
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