Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
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Clement Of Alexandria
AD 215
Says Poetry. More nobly the apostle says, "Be haters of the evil; cleave to the good.".
"Let your love be without dissimulation "it is said; "and abhorring what is evil, let us become attached to what is good, to brotherly love "and so on, down to "If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, living peaceably with all men. "Then "be not overcome of evil "it is said, "but overcome evil with good.".
Such shall he be "who cleaves to that which is good "according to the apostle,
The apostle does not here prohibit that defence, by which a person, either by word or action, preserves himself from injury. This he could not condemn, since he had so often recourse to it himself, as we read in the Acts of the Apostles: and in the second to Timothy, he writes: "In my first defence no one was with me. "Be he only forbids that revenge which a person takes of his neighbour, by private means, without having recourse to legal authority. (Estius)
If you have love, you will not notice the loss of your money, the labor of your body, the toil of your words, your trouble or your ministering, but you will bear everything courageously.
The precepts of your new god: "Abhor that which is evil, and cleave to that which is good.".
Like deed involves like merit. How shall we observe that principle, if in our loathing
