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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Oecumenius
"Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you: because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining." Thus, concerning the commandment of love for one's neighbor, which has long been established for both Jews and Greeks, John says: "Besides the old commandment that you heard about loving your neighbor, I am writing a new commandment to you: which is true in him who made you familiar with God, and in you who have communion with Him. …
Clement of Alexandria
"This is the commandment; for the darkness" of perversion, that is, "has passed away, and, lo, the true light has already shone," - that is, through faith, through knowledge, through the Covenant working in men, through prepared judgments.
Western Saints
Bede
Which is true in him and in you, etc. Behold here is the new, for darkness pertains to the old man and the light truly to the new man. Finally, the Apostle Paul says: Put off the old man and put on the new one (Eph. IV); and again: You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord (Eph. V).
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