KJV: 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.
YLT: Brethren, a new command I write not to you, but an old command, that ye had from the beginning -- the old command is the word that ye heard from the beginning;
Darby: Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment, which ye have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye heard.
ASV: Beloved, no new commandment write I unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: the old commandment is the word which ye heard.
| Ἀγαπητοί | Beloved |
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Parse: Adjective, Vocative Masculine Plural Root: ἀγαπητός Sense: beloved, esteemed, dear, favourite, worthy of love. |
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| ἐντολὴν | a commandment |
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Parse: Noun, Accusative Feminine Singular Root: ἐντολή Sense: an order, command, charge, precept, injunction. |
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| καινὴν | new |
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Parse: Adjective, Accusative Feminine Singular Root: καινός Sense: new. |
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| γράφω | I am writing |
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Parse: Verb, Present Indicative Active, 1st Person Singular Root: γράφω Sense: to write, with reference to the form of the letters. |
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| ὑμῖν | to you |
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Parse: Personal / Possessive Pronoun, Dative 2nd Person Plural Root: σύ Sense: you. |
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| παλαιὰν | old |
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Parse: Adjective, Accusative Feminine Singular Root: παλαιός Sense: old, ancient. |
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| εἴχετε | you have had |
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Parse: Verb, Imperfect Indicative Active, 2nd Person Plural Root: ἔχω Sense: to have, i.e. to hold. |
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| ἀρχῆς | [the] beginning |
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Parse: Noun, Genitive Feminine Singular Root: ἀρχή Sense: beginning, origin. |
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| ἐντολὴ | commandment |
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Parse: Noun, Nominative Feminine Singular Root: ἐντολή Sense: an order, command, charge, precept, injunction. |
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| ἡ | - |
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Parse: Article, Nominative Feminine Singular Root: ὁ Sense: this, that, these, etc. |
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| παλαιά | old |
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Parse: Adjective, Nominative Feminine Singular Root: παλαιός Sense: old, ancient. |
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| λόγος | word |
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Parse: Noun, Nominative Masculine Singular Root: λόγος Sense: of speech. |
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| ὃν | that |
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Parse: Personal / Relative Pronoun, Accusative Masculine Singular Root: ὅς Sense: who, which, what, that. |
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| ἠκούσατε | you have heard |
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Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 2nd Person Plural Root: ἀκουστός Sense: to be endowed with the faculty of hearing, not deaf. |
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Greek Commentary for 1 John 02:07
First instance of this favourite form of address in these Epistles (1 John 3:2, 1 John 3:21; 1 John 4:1, 1 John 4:7; 3 John 1:1, 3 John 1:2, 3 John 1:5, 3 John 1:11). [source]
Not novel or new in kind Ancient as opposed both to καινος kainos and νεος neos The Mosaic law taught love for one‘s neighbours and Christ taught love even of enemies.Which ye had Imperfect active, reaching back to the beginning of their Christian lives They had heard it expressly from Jesus (John 13:34), who, however, calls it “a new commandment.” [source]
Ancient as opposed both to καινος kainos and νεος neos The Mosaic law taught love for one‘s neighbours and Christ taught love even of enemies. [source]
Imperfect active, reaching back to the beginning of their Christian lives They had heard it expressly from Jesus (John 13:34), who, however, calls it “a new commandment.” [source]
The correct reading is ἀγαπηοί belovedThe first occurrence of this title, which is suggested by the previous words concerning the relation of love. [source]
Four words are used in the New Testament for old or elder. Of these γέρων and πρεσβύτερος refer merely to the age of men, or, the latter, to official position based primarily upon age. Hence the official term elder. Between the two others, ἀρχαῖος and παλαιός , the distinction is not sharply maintained. Ἁρχαῖος emphasizes the reaching back to a beginning ( ἀρχή ) Thus Satan is “that old ( ἀρχαῖος ) serpent,” whose evil work was coeval with the beginning of time (Revelation 7:9; Revelation 20:2). The world before the flood is “the old ( ἀρχαῖος ) world” (2 Peter 2:5). Mnason was “an old ( ἀρχαῖος ) disciple;” not aged, but having been a disciple from the beginning (Acts 21:16). Sophocles, in “Trachiniae,” 555, gives both words. “I had an old ( παλαιὸν ) gift,” i.e., received long ago, “from the old ( ἀρχαίου ) Centaur.” The Centaur is conceived as an old-world creature, belonging to a state of things which has passed away. It carries, therefore, the idea of old fashioned: peculiar to an obsolete state of things. Παλαιός carries the sense of worn out by time, injury, sorrow, or other causes. Thus the old garment (Matthew 9:16) is παλαιόν . So the old wine-skins (Matthew 9:17). The old men of a living generation compared with the young of the same generation are παλαιοί . In παλαιός the simple conception of time dominates. In ἀρχαῖος there is often a suggestion of a character answering to the remote age. -DIVIDER- -DIVIDER- The commandment is here called old because it belonged to the first stage of the Christian church. Believers had had it from the beginning of their Christian faith. [source]
The Rev., properly, places these words first in the sentence as emphatic, the point of the verse lying in the antithesis between the new and the old. On new, see on Matthew 26:29. [source]
The commandment of love. Compare John 13:34. This commandment is fulfilled in walking as Christ walked. Compare Ephesians 5:1, Ephesians 5:2. [source]