of mankind to have been intended by the precept which bids us love one another even as we love ourselves. Next, it is a new commandment because it is backed by a new reason. The old commandment was backed by this declaration, “I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.” The Israelite was to obey that law because of the redemption which God had wrought for his nation in Egypt, but we are commanded to love one another because Christ has redeemed