{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/103/1030790.htm","path":"chr/ecf/103/1030790.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/103/1030790.htm","text":"15. For, as the Divine utterances testify, \u201cGod is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God dwelleth in him.\u201d 2667 Whoso therefore contends that love of God may be had without aid of God, what else does he contend, but that God may be had without God? Now what Christian would say this, which no madman would venture to say? Therefore in the Apostle, true, pious, faithful patience, saith exultingly, and by the mouth of the Saints; \u201cWho shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us:\u201d not through ourselves, but, \u201cthrough Him that loved us.\u201d 2668 And then he goes on and adds; \u201cFor I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.\u201d This is that \u201clove of God\u201d which \u201cis shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given unto us.\u201d But the concupiscence of the bad, by reason of which there is in them a false patience, \u201cis not of the Father,\u201d 2669 as saith the Apostle John, but is of the world.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III: Moral Treatises...","type":"page"}