ACC ~ Colossians 3 v14

WITHOUT LOVE, NOTHING IS POSSIBLE. CHRYSOSTOM: Now what Paul wishes to say is that there is no benefit in those things, for all those things fall apart, unless they are done with love. This is the love that binds them all together. Whatever good thing it is that you mention, if love be absent, it is nothing, it melts away. The analogy is like a ship; though its rigging be large, yet if it lacks girding ropes, it is of no service. Or it is similar to a house; if there are no tie beams, of what use is the house? Think of a body. Though its bones be large, if it lacks ligaments, the bones cannot support the body. In the same way, whatever good our deeds possess will vanish completely if they lack love. HOMILIES ON COLOSSIANS 8.

SEVERIAN OF GABALA: When love does not lead, there is no completion of what is lacking; but, where love is present we abstain from doing evil to one another. Indeed we put our minds in the service of doing good, when we love one another. PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH.

AMBROSIASTER: When love is in command, the way of the law is followed: when the full mind does the operation, it is done with love. COMMENTARY ON THE LETTER TO THE COLOSSIANS.

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