2 Peter 1:7 (NIV): What the Church Fathers Said

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2 Peter 1:7

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Theophylact of Ohrid

To godliness will be joined brotherly love, and to all of this, love, which the Apostle Paul calls "the bond of perfection" (Col. 3:14). For love showed its power both over the Son of God and over His Father: it disposed the Father to give up His Beloved (Jn. 3:16), and the Son to shed His Blood for us (1 Jn. 3:16).

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Bede

In the love of brotherhood, charity. Here he specifically calls charity that by which we love the Creator, which, as the degrees of virtues advance, is rightly joined to the love of brotherhood, because neither God can be perfectly loved without a neighbor, nor a neighbor without God. …

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