Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 13:34
The commandment of loving one another is strictly no new commandment, we find it in the law of Moses, Leviticus 19:18; often pressed in the New Testament, John 15:17; Ephesians 5:2; 1 John 4:21; 1 John 2:7 saith, it is no new commandment, ; see also 2 John 1:6. It is therefore called a new commandment, either because of the excellency of it, as new seemeth to be taken, Psalms 33:3; Isaiah 65:17; Matthew 26:29; or because it is expounded in the gospel in a new manner, pressed more plainly and in... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - John 13:33
Our Saviour’s time of death being very nigh, (for it was the next day), he begins to speak of it to his disciples more freely and plainly, and to let them know that he, though now dying, bare a fatherly tender affection to them: he calls them little children. Parents have a natural affection to their children; a more tender affection to their children when little, because in their tender age they are more ignorant, and unable to provide for themselves. We find this compellation used by Christ’s... read more