ACC ~ Romans 12 v9

LET LOVE BE GENUINE; HATE WHAT IS EVIL. ORIGEN: I think that any love without God is artificial and not genuine. For God, the Creator of the soul, filled it with the feeling of love, along with the other virtues, so that it might love God and the things which God wants. But if the soul loves something other than God and what God wants, this love is said to be artificial and invented. And if someone loves his neighbor but does not warn him when he sees him going astray or correct him, such is only a pretense of love.

Perhaps it seems odd to find hatred listed among the virtues, but it is put here of necessity by the apostle. Nobody doubts that the soul has feelings of hatred in it; however, it is praiseworthy to hate evil and to hate sin.For unless a person hates evil he cannot love, nor can he retain the virtues. For example, if someone intends to preserve chastity, he cannot keep it safe unless he hates and despises immodesty.COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

HOLD FAST TO WHAT IS GOOD. CHRYSOSTOM: If you have love, you will not notice the loss of your money, the labor of your body, the toil of your words, your trouble or your ministering, but you will bear everything courageously. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 21.

PELAGIUS: Complete purity should dwell in the Christian, just as God is pure light, for it is typical of slaves to dissemble.And let us love not only in word but in deed and in truth, so that if it were necessary we would even die for one another. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

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