Again, 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.
Ver. 8. A new commandment] See Trapp on " Joh 13:34 " "A new commandment" it is called, saith a late learned interpreter, 1. Because it was renewed by the Lord after it had been as it were antiquated, and almost extinguished. 2. Because it was commanded to such men as were new or renewed. 3. Because it was an excellent commandment.