1 John 4:19 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

We love him, &c.— Some would read this, Let us therefore love him: and their reasons for it are, because the connection is by this interpretation rendered more easyand obvious; and the word αγαπωμεν, may be indifferently understood, either in the indicative or subjunctive mood: and as the word αγαπα is in the subjunctive mood, 1 John 4:21 so it seems to be ch. 1 John 5:1 and therefore the word αγαπωμεν should be so understood in this place. St. John, 1 John 4:11 infers from God's first loving us, that we ought to love one another: here he infers from God's first loving us, that we ought in return to love God.