Clement on Love

1 Let him who has love in Christ keep the commandments of Christ.

2 Who can describe the |blessed¦ bond of the love of God?

3 What man is able to tell the excellence of its beauty, as it ought to be told?

4 The height to which love exalts is unspeakable.

5 Love unites us to God. Love covers a multitude of sins. Love beareth all things, is long-suffering in all things. There is nothing base, nothing arrogant in love. Love admits of no schisms: love gives rise to no seditions: love does all things in harmony. By love have all the elect of God been made perfect; without love nothing is well-pleasing to God.

6 In love has the Lord taken us to Himself. On account of the Love he bore us, Jesus Christ our Lord gave His blood for us by the will of God; His flesh for our flesh, and His soul for our souls.

(1 Ceml 49:1-6)

F.F. Bruce on John 3.16

'For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life'

- John 3:16 (NET).

‘If there is one sentence more than another which sums up the message of the Fourth Gospel, it is this. The love of God is limitless; it embraces all mankind. No sacrifice was too great to bring its unmeasured intensity home to men and women: the best that God had to give, he gave – his only Son, well-beloved’.

F.F. Bruce, The Gospel & Epistles of John (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1994), 89-90.