Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 John 5:2

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 459, footnote 6 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise on Grace and Free Will. (HTML)

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Commendations of Love. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3157 (In-Text, Margin)

... beginning, that we should love one another.” Then he says again, “This is His commandment, that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another.” Once more: “And this commandment have we from Him that he who loveth God love his brother also.” Then shortly afterwards he adds, “By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep His commandments; for this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments: and His commandments are not grievous.”[1 John 5:2-3] While, in his second Epistle, it is written, “Not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.”