ACC ~ 1 John 4 v16

OF ONE MIND. CYPRIAN: Those who have refused to be of one mind in the church of God cannot abide with God. ON THE UNITY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 14.

ONE WHO HAS LOVE. BASIL THE GREAT: If God is love, as John says, then it must be that the devil is hatred. As he who has love has God, so he who has hatred has the devil dwelling in him. ASCETICAL DISCOURSES 2.

TRINITARIAN COMMUNION. AUGUSTINE: The Holy Spirit is commonly shared in some way between the Father and the Son. But this communion is itself consubstantial and coeternal. If it can appropriately be described as friendship, let it be so called—but it is better to call it love. It is a substance, because God is a substance, and God is love. ON THE TRINITY 6.5.7.

THE LOVER, THE BELOVED AND LOVE. AUGUSTINE: When we come to the subject of love, which is what God is called in Scripture, the Trinity begins to dawn a little, for there is the Lover, the Beloved and Love. ON THE TRINITY 15.10.

GOD AS LOVE AND BELOVED. PSEUDO-DIONYSIUS: Why is it that theologians sometimes refer to God as Yearning or Love and sometimes as the Yearned-for or the Beloved? On the one hand, he causes, produces and generates what is being referred to, and on the other hand, he is the thing itself. ON THE DIVINE NAMES 4.14.

THE LOVE GOD HAS FOR US. BEDE: We know that Jesus is the Son of God and that the Father has sent him to be the Savior of the world. And we believe in the love which God has for us, the same love which he has for his only-begotten Son, because God did not want his Son to be an only child. He wanted him to have brothers and sisters, and so he adopted us in order that we might share his eternal life. ON 1 JOHN.

SEEK ONE WHO IS LOVE. ISHO’DAD OF MERV: There is no Scripture which calls God only love, but John says this in order that we might seek him who is love, from whom the commandment to show mercy came. COMMENTARIES.

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