“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.”
Didymus the Blind, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON 1 JOHN
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7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
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5They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
6We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
— 1 John 4:7 —
8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.