“The height to which love exalts is unspeakable. Love unites us to God. Love covers a…”
The height to which love exalts is unspeakable. 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.
Clement of Rome · The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians · ANF I, The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, Chapter XLIX
The praise of love in the forty-ninth chapter, written to a church that had split: every clause of it is aimed at the schism the letter exists to end, which is why it turns from Paul's hymn to the flat statement that love admits of no schisms.
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These words were matched, word for word, against this project’s own copy of the volume cited.
In the letter Irenaeus and Eusebius both quote as Rome's to Corinth, in the region of the volume that carries it, and outside the quotation marks the translators use for Scripture.
Read in Roberts & Donaldson, ANF vol. 1 (1885) · Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, revised by A. Cleveland Coxe
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