on this Christian love: never having seen each other, Christians treated each other as brothers. This was astonishing to the pagan mind. In connection with Eph. 1:15 we have pointed to the danger of laying too much stress on love; see this passage. It is an old, most dangerous error to neglect justification and faith and to glorify love and works instead. This error generally also alters the Biblical conception of love and makes it a love which disregards the essential matter of doctrine. It was
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