Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

John 13:34

ἐντολὴν καινὴν δίδωμι ὑμῖν, ἵνα ἀγαπᾶτε ἀλλήλους : “one another,” not “all men,” which is a different commandment. So, rightly, Grotius: “ Novum autem dicit quia non agit de dilectione communi omnium … sed de speciali Christianorum inter se qua tales sunt,” and Holtzmann: “Es ist die φιλαδελφία im Unterschied von der allgemeinen ἀγάπη ”. The necessity of love among those who were to carry on Christ's work had that night become apparent. It was “new,” because the love of Christ's friends for Christ's sake was a new thing in the world. Therefore the kind rather than the degree of love is indicated in the clause καθὼς ἠγάπησα ὑμᾶς κ. τ. λ.

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John 13:34

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