that ye also love one another.” And so the repetition of this commandment is its commendation: only that there He said, “A new commandment I give unto you;” and here, “This is my commandment:” there, as if there had been no such commandment before; and here, as if He had no other commandment to give them. But there it is spoken of as “new,” to keep us from persevering in our old courses; here, it is called “mine,” to keep us from treating it with contempt.
{"author":"Augustine of Hippo","date_end":null,"date_label":"Date uncertain","date_start":null,"edition_year":1888,"edition_year_basis":"Historical American edition preface dated 1888; physical printing year not established","id":"ws-library-heading-paragraph:7a6d16b19a0cf88e91ce:p:5","is_genuine_commentary_verified":false,"license_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Reusing_Wikisource_content","public_import_allowed":true,"publication_location":"source-library","record_type":"source-library-passage","references":[],"rights_approved":true,"section":"Tractate 83, source paragraph 5","semantic_kind_reviewed":false,"source_library_url":"/library/7a6d16b19a0cf88e91ce/#ws-library-heading-paragraph:7a6d16b19a0cf88e91ce:p:5","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nicene_and_Post-Nicene_Fathers:_Series_I/Volume_VII/Gospel_According_to_St._John/Part_83#mwJg","translator":"James Innes","verification":{"note":null,"original_work_coordinate":{"original_tractate_heading":"Tractate LXXXIII.","source_paragraph_index":5,"tractate":83},"reference_proofs":[],"source_id":"7a6d16b19a0cf88e91ce","source_node":{"html":{"$text_sha256":"07d0d1e8b71c2357c43edb5a771121f8c5c082b60915356df60491101619186b"},"html_sha256":"07d0d1e8b71c2357c43edb5a771121f8c5c082b60915356df60491101619186b","xpath":"/html/body/div[3]/div/div[3]/main/div[3]/div[2]/div[1]/section[1]/p[5]"},"source_path":"raw/research/approved-family-refresh-0042/7a6d16b19a0cf88e91ce.html","source_record_file":"raw/review/heading-library-paragraph-batch-0078/original-source-records.jsonl","source_record_file_sha256":"4ee57be3b1f926552f48947fb1d60d30ab7880eba17b772aa7d9180ebd80cf13","source_record_id":"ws-library-heading-paragraph:7a6d16b19a0cf88e91ce:p:5","source_sha256":"ff4d0464ca93d8d33625ef05b5206522791809efdd67109a69e8589b66ccb563","text_sha256":"1c5f7f675b633176c66ad02977e10e432685e5f19c8477f59255e089eda74670","type":"whole-heading-source-library-paragraph-dom"},"verified":true,"work":"Tractates on the Gospel of John","work_id":"augustine-john-tractates"}
{"author":"Augustine of Hippo","date_end":null,"date_label":"Date uncertain","date_start":null,"edition_year":1888,"edition_year_basis":"Historical American edition preface dated 1888; physical printing year not established","id":"ws-library-heading-paragraph:7a6d16b19a0cf88e91ce:p:5","is_genuine_commentary_verified":false,"license_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Reusing_Wikisource_content","public_import_allowed":true,"publication_location":"source-library","record_type":"source-library-passage","references":[],"rights_approved":true,"section":"Tractate 83, source paragraph 5","semantic_kind_reviewed":false,"source_library_url":"/library/7a6d16b19a0cf88e91ce/#ws-library-heading-paragraph:7a6d16b19a0cf88e91ce:p:5","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nicene_and_Post-Nicene_Fathers:_Series_I/Volume_VII/Gospel_According_to_St._John/Part_83#mwJg","translator":"James Innes","verification":{"proof_file":"raw/review/heading-library-paragraph-batch-0078/proof-records.jsonl","proof_file_sha256":"da9afcdff4da8f21d643651bccbb0b7397819fef6f8a62b494dc01cb8c9282be","proof_record_id":"ws-library-heading-paragraph:7a6d16b19a0cf88e91ce:p:5"},"verified":true,"work":"Tractates on the Gospel of John","work_id":"augustine-john-tractates"}