1 Thessalonians 4:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. Touching brotherly love - They were remarkable for this; and though the apostle appears to have had this as a topic on which he intended to write to them, yet, from the account which he received of their prosperous state by Timothy, he finds that it is unnecessary to spend any time in inculcating a doctrine which they fully understood and practised. See 1 Thessalonians 3:6.