ACC ~ 1 John 5 v1

ONE WHO LOVES THE PARENT LOVES THE CHILD. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM: We can turn this around and say that anyone who despises the Begotten also despises the One who begat him. CATECHETICAL LECTURES 11.7.

EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES. DIDYMUS THE BLIND: This describes everyone who is born of God and does what God wants him to do. COMMENTARY ON 1 JOHN.

JOINING LOVE TO FAITH. CAESARIUS OF ARLES: John immediately joined love to faith, because without love faith is useless. According to charity, faith belongs to Christians, but without love it belongs to the demons. Moreover, those who do not believe are even worse than the demons. SERMONS 186.1.

A CHILD OF GOD. ANDREAS: By practicing virtue, those who are born of God have become his children, his friends, just as Abraham was. Once again John touches on the doctrine of truth, revealing the depths of the unbelief of the heretics. CATENA.

BELIEVING THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST. BEDE: Who is it who believes that Jesus is the Christ? It is the person who lives according to Christ’s commandments. Let no heretic or schismatic say that he believes that Jesus is the Christ, for even the devils believe and tremble, because they too know that much. But those who do not have his love or the works of truth are not of God. ON 1 JOHN.

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