Prove love by holding unity

You changed the thief on the cross in one hour: change this opposer too. And surely let us see what you have. "I have," you say, "the sacrament, I have baptism." If I say to you, "Prove it," you show me what you received, you say what you confessed, you say what you hold. I recognize it, I do not change it, I do not breathe scorn upon it. Far be it from me that, when I seek the salvation of a deserter, I should insult the emperor. So you have proved to me that you have the sacrament; by explaining the sacrament you have proved to me that you have the faith. Prove to me that you have love: hold unity. I do not want you to say to me, "I have love." Prove it. We have one Father: let us pray together. What do you say when you pray, I ask you? "Our Father, who art in heaven." Thanks be to God. According to the teaching of our Lord you added: who art in heaven. For we each had fathers on earth; we have found one Father together in heaven. Our Father, who art in heaven: you call upon Him as Father. Our Father willed to have one wife. Why then, when we worship one Father, do we not recognize one mother? If you say you were born of another, she herself bore you from a foreign bosom. What I said, not all of you could understand. We know that through lawful wives it came about that even those who were not born of lawful wives were joined in the same inheritance. The will of the spouse did this. For Ishmael was disinherited. Sarah herself had borne him, though from another's womb. Sarah bore him from another's womb, by her own wish. For she said: I want you to make me children by her (Genesis 16:2), and so Abraham did it. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does (1 Corinthians 7:4). For he would have been a son, if he had not been proud; Ishmael was disinherited for pride. For the maidservant raised her neck, so that it was said: Cast out the maidservant and her son; for the son of the maidservant shall not be heir with my son Isaac (Genesis 21:10). Do you want to know what peace is worth, what concord is worth, what humility is worth, and what pride blocks? Pride disinherited Ishmael, but the sons of the maidservants from Jacob—because the lawful wives also wished them to be born—the sons of the maidservants of Jacob, we know, were called into one inheritance. All twelve patriarchs were counted together; no difference of womb separated one from another, because love joined them all. What difference does it make then where you received baptism? "Baptism is mine," Sarah says to you; "baptism is mine," Rachel says to you. Do not be proud; come to the inheritance, especially because that inheritance is not the land that was given to the sons of Jacob. The land was given to the sons of Israel; the more people possessed it, the more crowded it became. Our inheritance is called peace. I read the testament: My peace I give to you, my peace I leave with you (John 14:27). Let us hold together what cannot be divided. Many possessors do not crowd it; however many come, as it was promised: So shall your offspring be, like the stars of heaven and like the sand that is on the shore of the sea (Genesis 22:17). In your offspring shall all nations be blessed (Genesis 22:18). And I saw, he says in Revelation, many in white robes and holding palm branches, whom no one could number, coming from all nations (Revelation 7:9). Let them come, let them hold peace. Our possession does not become narrow; only dissension makes narrowness. See, my brothers, so that we still suffer narrowness, our brother's dissension is the cause: let him agree in peace, and breadth is made.