knowledge and discernment shows, in it the judgment, not the emotions, sways the will. may abound yet more and more—as at 1 Thessalonians 4:10, save that there the phrase is simply “abound more.” He does not ask that their love may be increasingly directed toward himself alone. The love to which he refers is their love toward God, which will inevitably express itself one toward another and toward all men. Love in the holy, gospel sense does not select its objects; it is its own cause; it is not static,