ACC ~ Romans 12 v10

LOVE ONE ANOTHER. POLYCARP: “Stand fast therefore in these things and follow the example of the Lord,” being firm in the faith and immovable, in love of the brotherhood kindly affectioned to one another, “partners with the truth,” forestalling one another “in the gentleness of the Lord,” despising no one. THE EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS 10.

AMBROSIASTER: Brotherly love is useless unless it is mutual. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

CHRIST DIED FOR THE UNGODLY. ORIGEN: It happens that we hate things we ought not to, just as we love things we ought not to. We are ordered to love our brothers, not to hate them. If you think that someone is ungodly, remember that “Christ died for the ungodly.” And if you think that because your brother is a sinner you do not have to love him, remember that “Christ Jesus came into this world to save sinners.”But if he is righteous, then he is much more worthy of love, for “God loves the righteous.” COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

HONOR THE NEIGHBOR. CHRYSOSTOM: You should love one another because you are brothers and have been born from the same spiritual womb. … There is nothing which makes friends so much as the earnest endeavor to overcome one’s neighbor by honoring him. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 21.

WITH BROTHERLY AFFECTION. PELAGIUS: You should love one another as if you had been born of the same mother. If we always observed this injunction we would maintain love and patience. For if we considered ourselves less than everyone else we would neither insult anyone gratuitously nor be deeply hurt if someone insulted us. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

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