gives the meaning which Paul attached to the curious phrase ‘will heap coals of fire on his head.’ The principle involved is the law that evil can never be overcome by evil, but only by a greater good; in our common saying, ‘two wrongs do not make a right.’ This is the most important thing that Paul has to say about love, or charity, in its wider application. Agapé is, as we have seen, in its essence that property of the divine Nature by which God is good to the undeserving, supremely expressed in