Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
brotherly love, etc.—referring here to acts of brotherly kindness in relieving distressed brethren. Some oldest manuscripts support English Version reading, "YE have"; others, and those the weightiest, read, "WE have." We need not write, as ye yourselves are taught, and that by God: namely, in the heart by the Holy Spirit (John 6:45; Hebrews 8:11; I John 2:20, I John 2:27).
to love—Greek, "with a view to," or "to the end of your loving one another." Divine teachings have their confluence in love [BENGEL].
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