ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 13 v5

LOVE SEEKS TO DISCERN ITS OWN DEFECTS. BASIL: A person living in solitary retirement will not readily discern his own defects, since he has no one to admonish or correct him with mildness and compassion. In fact, admonition from an enemy often produces in a prudent man the desire for amendment. THE LONG RULES 7.

REMOVING VICE. CHRYSOSTOM: He adorns love not only for what it has but also for what it has not. Love both elicits virtue and expels vice, not permitting it to spring up at all. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 33.3.

FREE SERVITUDE TRANSCENDING DOMINANCE. CASSIODORUS: So those who serve the Lord with gladness are they who love him above all else and show brotherly charity to each other.

What free servitude is this! What service, excelling all forms of dominance! EXPLANATION OF THE PSALMS 2.

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