ACC ~ 1 John 4 v7

LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER. DIDYMUS THE BLIND: Just as the person who does not choose what he ought to choose has done wrong and does not love what he ought to love, so those who love only those who are worthy of love receive only that level of praise due to them. COMMENTARY ON 1 JOHN.

BASING LIFE ON LOVE. AUGUSTINE: To practice righteousness and judgment means to live virtuously, and to live virtuously means to obey God’s law, the purpose of which is to help us to base our lives on the principle of love. This is the love which comes from God, as John says. THE CITY OF GOD 17.4.

LOVE IS FROM GOD. AUGUSTINE: Love is from God, as have declared those whom he has made not only his great lovers but also his great preachers. ON THE GIFT OF PERSEVERANCE 21.56.

LOVED AND CALLED TO LOVE. ANDREAS: What does it mean to say that love is from God? Surely this refers to the man who came from God, who was revealed according to the image and likeness of the one who made him? For when this man appeared, he was revealed as the beloved and as worthy of being loved. Now since this Savior has been sent into the world because of the Father’s great love for the things which he has made, those who have received this blessing and who are thus beloved ought to love one another. For each of us is loved and is called to love, having the command that we should love our neighbor. CATENA.

PRAISING LOVE. BEDE: John often praised love, which he said came from God, which is why we read that “he who loves is born of God.” What more need be said? God is love, and therefore to go against love is to go against God. ON 1 JOHN.

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