Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Brethren—The oldest manuscripts and versions read instead, "Beloved," appropriate to the subject here, love.
no new commandment—namely, love, the main principle of walking as Christ walked (I John 2:6), and that commandment, of which one exemplification is presently given, I John 2:9-10, the love of brethren.
ye had from the beginning—from the time that ye first heard the Gospel word preached.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 John 2:7:
John 13:34
John 13:34
2 John 1:5
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