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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
Nothing is so injurious to mankind as to undervalue friendship; and not to cultivate it with the greatest care; as nothing, on the other hand, is so beneficial, as to pursue it to the utmost of our power. This Christ has shown, where He says, "If two of you shall agree on earth, as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of My Father" (Matt. xviii. 19); and again, "Because iniquity shall abound, love shall wax cold." (Matt. xxiv. 12.) It is this that has been the occasion of all heresies. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
If you, he says, will admonish them not to teach otherwise, you will achieve this, namely love. If you instill love in them, then every corrupt doctrine will find no place among them. Before, when there was no love, there was envy; from envy came love of power; from love of power the desire to teach; and from this, heresies. But now it is not so. …
Ignatius of Antioch
None of these things is hid from you, if ye perfectly possess that faith and love towards Christ Jesus which are the beginning and the end of life. For the beginning is faith, and the end is love. Now these two, being inseparably connected together, are of God, while all other things which are requisite for a holy life follow after them. No man [truly] making a profession of faith sinneth; nor does he that possesses love hate any one. …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
But when the sight shall have come which is promised anew to us face to face, we shall see this not only incorporeal but also absolutely indivisible and truly unchangeable Trinity far more clearly and certainly than we now see its image which we ourselves are: and yet they who see through this glass and in this enigma, as it is permitted in this life to see, are not those who behold in their own mind the things which we have set in order and pressed upon them; but those who see this as if an image, so as to be able to refer what they …
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says, now the end, he shows what should be kept of the law. In regard to this he does two things: first, he proves this; second, that there is a danger for those who do not hold this, at from which things. In regard to the first it should be noted that the old law is called the law of the commandments, because it is hemmed in by commandments and precepts: making void the law of commandments contained in decrees (Eph 2:15). …
Bonaventure
And in this commandment consists the consummation of God's precepts, whether the world accepts it or not — this, indeed, he asserted — that is, in the abdication of all cupidity. And so, as a ninefold series is completed and made perfect by the addition of a single unit, so the nine commandments are made perfect through the abdication of cupidity, which consists in private love and disregard for the common good. …
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