“These things I command you in order that you may love one another”.

‘In order that you may love one another.' One purpose of His commands, included in the command that we be fruitful, is that we love one another. Note how He keeps coming back to this need to love one another. This is the end result of His teaching. It is to be the trademark of the people of God. Alas, how we have failed Him in this important requirement. How different history would have been if we had not.

Alternately we may see this as the command to love (a weakened sense of ‘that' - hina). ‘I command you that you love one another.'

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