Again a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true both in him and in you; because the darkness is passed, and the true light now shineth.
Glossa Ordinaria
Which is true. According as he promised that through the observance of God's commandments one comes to the knowledge and love of him. And in him. Fulfilled in Christ, because he obeyed the Father unto death: and therefore he was glorified. And in you. Certain of whom already through this glory in God, and it is truly new because the darkness has now passed away. Darkness belongs to the old man, but light to the new man.
English is machine-translated from the public-domain Latin (Glossa Ordinaria, Migne, Patrologia Latina 113-114, 1852; digital text from Corpus Corporum, mlat.uzh.ch), since no public-domain English translation exists. It is not a scholarly translation. Please report errors.