“Who is able to explain the bond of the love of God?
Who can sufficiently express the greatness of its beauty?
The height to which love leads is indescribable.
Love unites us with God.
Love covers up a multitude of sins.
Love bears all things, is patient in all things.
There is nothing vulgar, nothing arrogant in love; love does not have schism, love does not rebel; love does all things in harmony.
All of the elect of God were made perfect in love.
Apart from love, nothing is pleasing to God.
The Master received us in love.
Because of the love that He had for us, He gave His blood for us, Jesus Christ our Lord, by the will of God, and His flesh for our flesh, and His life for our lives.”
–Rick Brannan, I Clement, trans., The Apostolic Fathers in English (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2012), 65. (49.2-6) First Clement is a letter written from the Roman church to the church in Corinth. Tradition views Clement, who was either the second or third bishop of Rome, as the author. It was likely written during the reign of the emperor Domitian, between 81–96 AD.
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