For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
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Clement Of Alexandria
AD 215
For how shall he not be loved for whose sake the only-begotten Son is sent from the Father's bosom, the Word of faith, the faith which is superabundant; the Lord Himself distinctly confessing and saying, "For the Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved Me; "