John Gill's Exposition on 1 John 4:21

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And this commandment have we from him, &c.] Either “from God”, as the Alexandrian copy and the Vulgate Latin version read; and that to love the brethren is a commandment of God, is clear from (<620323>1 John 3:23); or from Christ, for it is also a command of his, even his new commandment, which he has given, and his people have received from him: that he who loveth God, love his brother also; (see <431334>John 13:34) (<431512>John 15:12,17); which is an argument persuading to attend to the one as well as to the other; for the same command that requires the one, requires the other: and he that transgresses it in one case, is a transgressor of it, as well as in the other.

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