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I don't get this:

Can someone please explain this to me?
 
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He is saying that the "new" commandment, which is to love your brother (and God also), and is repeated throughout the epistle, is the same, or the summation, of the prior commandments of God. Notice that later in 3:11- 12 he repeats the commandment about loving your brother and contrasts it with Cain who slew his brother.
I would say that the "old" refers to the Law of Moses, that being the whole of the first 5 books or the pentatuch, others would limit it to being the Law Moses recieved from God on mt Sinai, and others would say that the "old" is the ten commandments only.
 
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The New Commandment is to follow the Torah the way God originally intended people to and the way Jesus revealed to us: not necessarily literally but in its spirit, which is summed up in the Lord's Two Great Commandments.
 
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