13. Thus also the Apostle Paul, when he was urging the merits of peace and charity, and when he was strongly asserting and teaching that neither faith nor alms, nor even the passion itself of the confessor and the martyr,27    Or, according to ancient authority, “of confession and martyrdom.” [Note this clear conception of the root-principle of the true martyr, and compare Treatise xi. infra.] would avail him, unless he kept the requirements of charity entire and inviolate, added, and said:  “Charity is magnanimous, charity is kind, charity envieth not;”28    1 Cor. xiii. 4. teaching, doubtless, and showing that whoever is magnanimous, and kind, and averse from jealousy and rancour, such a one can maintain charity. Moreover, in another place, when he was advising that the man who has already become filled with the Holy Spirit, and a son of God by heavenly birth, should observe nothing but spiritual and divine things, he lays it down, and says: “And I indeed, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, not with meat:29    Or, “I have given you milk to drink, not meat,” is read by some. for ye were not able hitherto; moreover, neither now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there are still among you jealousy, and contention, and strifes, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?”30    1 Cor. iii. 1–3.

XIII. Ideo et apostolus Paulus, cum pacis et charitatis merita depromeret, cumque asseveraret firmiter et doceret nec fidem sibi, nec eleemosynas, nec 0647A passionem quoque ipsam confessoris et martyris profuturam, nisi charitatis foedera integra atque inviolata servasset, adjecit et dixit: Charitas magnanima est, charitas benigna est, charitas non zelat (I Cor. XIII, 4); docens scilicet et ostendens eum posse charitatem tenere quisquis magnanimus fuerit et benignus et zeli ac livoris alienus. Item alio loco, cum moneret ut homo jam sancto Spiritu plenus et nativitate coelesti Dei filius factus non nisi spiritalia et divina sectetur, ponit et dicit: Et ego quidem, fratres, non potui vobis loqui quasi spiritalibus, sed quasi carnalibus, tamquam infantibus in Christo. Lacte vos potavi , non cibo, nondum enim poteratis, sed neque nunc potestis . Adhuc enim estis carnales. Ubi enim in vobis zelus et contentio et dissensiones sunt, nonne carnales estis et secundum hominem ambulatis (I Cor. III, 1-3)?