The Fruit of Love and the Urgency of the Time
Beloved, just as finding the time of persecutions to be a wood of good pleasure, they will show the fruit of the visible struggle. Thus also toward Job the God said: for he thinks I have used you otherwise than so that you might appear righteous (Job 2:5).
Such then being this love, it naturally bears many advantages in itself; for the one loving does not commit adultery, does not murder, does not do anything else of the forbidden things (Rom 13:9), so that the one having love thus through love fulfilled the law continuously.
Fulfill, he says, the work of love (Rom 13:10), knowing the time pressing and virtue requiring (Rom 13:11). Now our salvation is nearer than when we believed, that is now when we have known of the...
Greek
ἐρασταί, ὥσπερ ὕλην εὑρόντες εὐδοκιμήσεως τὸν τῶν διωγμῶν καιρόν, δείξουσι τῆς ἐναρέτου ἀθλήσεως τὸν καρπόν. οὕτω γοῦν καὶ πρὸς τὸν Ἰὼβ ὁ θεὸς ἔφη· οἴει γάρ με ἄλλως σοι κεχρηματικέναι, ἢ ἵνα ἀναφανῇς δίκαιος. Ro+m13,9 Τοιαύτη τοίνυν οὖσα τις ἡ ἀγάπη, εἰκότως πολλὰ φέρει ἐν ἑαυτῇ τὰ πλεονεκτήματα· ὁ γὰρ ἀγαπῶν οὐ μοιχεύει, οὐ φονεύει, οὐχ ἕτερόν τι τῶν ἀπηγορευμένων ποιεῖ, ὥστε ὁ ἔχων ἀγάπην οὕτως ἀθρόως διὰ τῆς ἀγάπης τὸν νόμον ἐπλήρωσεν. Ro+m13,11 Πληροῦτε, φησί, τὸ τῆς ἀγάπης ἔργον, εἰδότες τὸν καιρὸν κατεπείγοντα καὶ ἀρετὴν ἀπαιτοῦντα. νῦν ἐγγύτερον ἡμῶν ἡ σωτηρία ἢ ὅτε ἐπιστεύσαμεν, τοῦτ' ἔστι νῦν ὅτε ἔγνωμεν τῶν
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A deep exploration of Paul's divine mission and God's judgment, revealing why faith matters in a world that ignores Christ.
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- Copy-text PG 65 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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