And the scribe said unto him, Well, Teacher, you have said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
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Hilary of Poitiers
AD 368
The answer of the scribe seems to accord with the words of the Lord, for he too acknowledges the inmost love of one God, and professes the love of one’s neighbor as real as the love of self, and places love of God and love of one’s neighbor above all the burnt offerings of sacrifices.
Accordingly, God's judgment will be more full and complete, because it will be pronounced at the very last, in an eternal irrevocable sentence, both of punishment and of consolation, (on men whose) souls are not to transmigrate into beasts, but are to return into their own proper bodies. And all this once for all, and on "that day, too, of which the Father only knoweth; "
Which the law also does appoint: "To love the Lord God with all thy mind, and with all thy soul, who is the one and only God, besides whom there is no other; "
