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| Chapter XLIX.—The praise of love.
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Chapter XLIX.—The praise of love.
Let him who
has love in Christ keep the commandments of Christ. Who can describe the
[blessed] bond of the love of God? What man is able to tell the
excellence of its beauty, as it ought to be told? The height to which
love exalts is unspeakable. Love unites us to God. Love covers a
multitude of sins.221
Love beareth all things, is long-suffering in all things.222
There is nothing base, nothing arrogant in
love. Love admits of no schisms: love gives rise to no seditions: love
does all things in harmony. By love have all the elect of God been made
perfect; without love nothing is well-pleasing to God. In love has the
Lord taken us to Himself. On account of the Love he bore us, Jesus Christ
our Lord gave His blood for us by the will of God; His flesh for our
flesh, and His soul for our souls.223
| 223 [Comp. Irenæus, v. 1; also Mathetes, Ep. to Diognetus,
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