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# you, lady ... writing to you
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These instances of "you" are singular. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-you]])
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# I were writing to you a new commandment, but one that we have had from the beginning
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Here, "beginning" refers to "when we first believed." Alternate translation: "I were commanding you to do something new, but what Christ commanded us to do when we first believed" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# beginning—that we should love one another
This can be translated as a new sentence. Alternate translation: "beginning. He commanded that we should love one another"
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