Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Peter 1:22

22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit , unto unfeigned love of the brethren , see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently .

i. e. Your selves: the whole Person is implied, the Soul being the principal Part.

In subjecting your selves to the Truth of the Gospel, by Faith, to which the Purification of the Heart is ascribed, Acts 15.9. not only as to Justification, and purging away the Guilt of Sin, but as to Sanctification, and cleansing from the Defilement of it; q. d. seeing ye have begun to purifie your Hearts by Faith in Christ, set forth in the Gospel, and made Sanctification to them that believe, 1 Cor. 1.30

Love to the Brethren in Christ, and for Christ's sake. This notes one great end of our Sanctification, viz. the Exercise of Brotherly Love, whereby our Love to God is likewise manifested, when we love them upon his account. The whole clause may likewise be understood, as an Exhortation to purifie themselves more and more by Faith, that so they might (being purged from carnal Affections) be the better able, and more disposed to love one another.

By the Operation of the Spirit working Faith in you.

Without Hypocrisie, and which is not in word only, but in Deed and in Truth, 1 Iohn 3.18.

As the Source and Fountain of your Love to each other, and from whence it proceeds, 1 Tim. 1.5. and 2 Tim. 2.22.

Or, vehemently ▪ and intensely, strongly. The word seems to be a Metaphor taken from a Bow, which the more it is bent with the greater force it sends forth the Arrow; so Love, the more fervent, and strong it is, the more abundantly it puts forth it self for the Benefit of others.

Marginal references: Rom. 12.10 Heb. 13.1. Chap. 2.17.