Anf-01 ii.ii.xlix Pg 3
Comp. 1 Cor. xiii. 4, etc.
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, cap. ix.]