Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.
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Remigius of Rheims
AD 533
Because the utmost perfection of love cannot go beyond the love of enemies, therefore as soon as the Lord has bid us love our enemies, He proceeds, “Be yet hen perfect, as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” He indeed isperfect, as being omnipotent; man, as being aided by the Omnipotent. For the word ‘as’ is used in Scripture, sometimes for identity, and equality, as in that, “As I was with Moses, so will I be with thee;” sometimes to express likeness only as here.
