3. That charity and brotherly affection are to be religiously and stedfastly practised.

In Malachi: “Hath not one God created us? Is there not one Father of us all? Why have ye certainly deserted every one his brother?”372 Mal. ii. 10. Of this same thing according to John: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.”373 John xiv. 27. Also in the same place: “This is my commandment, That ye love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love than this has no man, than that one should lay down his life for his friends.”374 John xv. 12, 13. Also in the same place: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God.”375 Matt. v. 9. Also in the same place: “Verily I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth concerning everything, whatever you shall ask it shall be given you from my Father which is in heaven. For wherever two or three are gathered together in my name, I am with them.”376 Matt. xviii. 19, 20. Of this same thing in the first Epistle to the Corinthians: “And I indeed, brethren, could not speak unto you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I have given you milk for drink, not meat: for while ye were yet little ye were not able to bear it, neither now are ye able. For ye are still carnal: for where there are in you emulation, and strife, and dissensions, are ye not carnal, and walk after man?”377 1 Cor. iii. 1–3. Likewise in the same place: “And if I should have all faith, so that I can remove mountains, but have not charity, I am nothing. And if I should distribute all my goods for food, and if I should deliver up my body to be burned, but have not charity, I avail nothing. Charity is great-souled; charity is kind; charity envieth not; charity dealeth not falsely; is not puffed up; is not irritated; thinketh not evil; rejoiceth not in injustice, but rejoiceth in the truth. It loveth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, beareth all things. Charity shall never fail.”378 1 Cor. xiii. 2–8. Of this same thing to the Galatians: “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. But if ye bite and accuse one another, see that ye be not consumed one of another.”379 Gal. v. 14, 15. Of this same thing in the Epistle of John: “In this appear the children of God and the children of the devil. Whosoever is not righteous is not of God, and he who loveth not his brother. For he who hateth his brother is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.”380 1 John iii. 10, 15. Also in the same place: “If any one shall say that he loves God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he who loveth not his brother whom he seeth, how can he love God whom he seeth not?”381 1 John iv. 20. Of this same thing in the Acts of the Apostles: “But the multitude of them that had believed acted with one soul and mind: nor was there among them any distinction, neither did they esteem as their own anything of the possessions that they had; but all things were common to them.”382 Acts iv. 32. Of this same thing in the Gospel according to Matthew: If thou wouldest offer thy gift at the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; leave thou thy gift before the altar, and go; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift at the altar.”383 Matt. v. 23, 24. [I think this harmonizes with Heb. xiii. 10.] Also in the Epistle of John: “God is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”384 1 John iv. 16. Also in the same place: “He who saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is a liar, and walketh in darkness even until now.”385 1 John ii. 9.

CAP. III---AGAPEN ET DILECTIONEM FRATERNAM RELIGIOSE ET FIRMITER EXERCENDAM.

Apud Malachiam: Nonne Deus unus condidit nos? Nonne pater unus est omnium nostrum ? Quid utique dereliquistis unusquisque fratrem suum (Malach. II, 10)? De hoc ipso cata Joannem: Pacem vobis remitto, pacem meam do vobis (Joan. XIV, 27). Item illic: Hoc est mandatum meum, ut diligatis invicem, quemadmodum dilexi vos. Majorem hac charitatem nemo habet, quam ut animam suam quis ponat pro amicis suis (Ib. XV, 15). Item illic: Beati pacifici, quoniam ipsi filii Dei vocabuntur (Matth. V, 9). Item illic: Amen 0733B dico vobis, quoniam, si duobus ex vobis convenerit in terra , de omni re quamcumque petieritis, continget vobis a Patre meo qui in coelis est. Ubicumque enim fuerint duo aut tres collecti in nomine meo, ego cum eis sum (Matth. XVIII, 19). De hoc ipso ad Corinthios I: Et ego quidem, fratres, non potui vobis loqui quasi spiritalibus, sed quasi carnalibus; quasi infantibus in Christo, lac vobis potum dedi , non escam . Dum enim adhuc pusilli eratis, non poteratis, sed neque nunc potestis, adhuc enim estis carnales. Ubi enim in vobis aemulatio et contentio et dissensiones, nonne carnales estis, et secundum hominem ambulatis (I Cor. III, 1-3)? Item illic: Etsi habuero omnem fidem, ita ut montes transferam, charitatem autem non habeam, nihil sum . Etsi in cibos distribuero omnia mea, et si tradidero corpus 0733C meum ut ardeam , charitatem autem non habeam, nihil proficio . Charitas magnanima est, charitas benigna est, charitas non aemulatur, charitas non agit perperam, non inflatur, non irritatur, non cogitat malum, non gaudet super injustitiam, collaetatur autem in veritate. Omnia diligit, omnia credit, omnia sperat, omnia sustinet . Charitas numquam excidet (I Cor. XIII, 2-8). De hoc ipso ad Galatas: Diliges proximum tibi tamquam te. Si autem mordetis et incusatis invicem, videte ne consumamini ab invicem (Gal. V, 14-16). De hoc 0734A ipso in Epistola Joannis: In hoc apparent filii Dei et filii diaboli. Omnis qui non est justus, non est de Deo, et qui non diligit fratrem suum. Qui enim fratrem suum odit, homicida est. Et scitis quia omnis homicida non habet in se vitam aeternam in se manentem (I Joan. IV, 16). Item illic : Si quis dixerit quoniam diligit Deum, et fratrem suum odit, mendax est. Qui enim non diligit fratrem suum quem videt , Deum quem non videt quomodo potest diligere? De hoc ipso in Actibus Apostolorum: Turba autem eorum qui crediderant anima ac mente una agebant, nec fuit inter illos discrimen ullum, nec quicquam suum judicabant ex bonis quae eis erant, sed fuerunt illis omnia communia (Act. IV, 32). De hoc ipso in Evangelio cata Matthaeum: Si obtuleris munus tuum ad altare, et illic recordatus fueris quia fratrer tuus 0734B habet aliquid adversum te, relinque illic munus tuum ante altare, et vade prius reconciliari fratri tuo, et tunc veni et offer munus tuum ad altare (Matth. V, 23). Item in Epistola Joannis: Deus charitas est, et qui manet in charitate , in Deo manet, et Deus in eo (I Joan. IV, 16). Item illic: Qui dicit se in luce esse et fratrem suum odit, mendax est , et in tenebris ambulat usque adhuc (I Joan. II, 9).