Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
Brethren. 'Aleph (') A B C, Vulgate, read 'Beloved,' appropriate to the subject, love.
No new commandment - love, the principle of walking as Christ walked (1 John 2:6), and that commandment, of which exemplification is given, 1 John 2:9-10, the love of brethren.
Ye had from the beginning - from the time ye first heard the Gospel word.