ACC ~ 1 John 3 v21

IF OUR HEARTS DO NOT CONDEMN US. AUGUSTINE: Our conscience gives us a true answer, that we love and that genuine love is in us, not feigned but sincere, seeking our brother’s salvation and expecting nothing from him except his salvation. TEN HOMILIES ON 1 JOHN 6.4.

ATTEND TO THE WARNINGS OF CONSCIENCE. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: As long as you are in this life (for this life is nothing other than the way which we all take), do not ignore or reject the warnings of your conscience. For if you do so, when you have run your course, your conscience will rise up against you and accuse you before your judge, and thrust you in front of the judge’s sentence and turn you over to eternal punishment. You will not have to endure this if along the way you show yourself kind toward this adversary and accept his well-intended rebukes with gratitude. CATENA.

WE CAN HAVE CONFIDENCE. BEDE: If the truth is that we love, and love is second nature to us, not feigned but sincere, seeking the welfare of others and asking for nothing in return except the salvation of a brother, we haveconfidence. If, in other words, our heart does not condemn us, then we have confidence toward God, not in the sight of other people but where God alone can see it—in our hearts. ON 1 JOHN.

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