Chapter L.—Let us pray to be thought worthy of love.
Ye see, beloved, how great and wonderful a thing is love, and that there is no declaring
its perfection. Who is fit to be found in it, except such as God has vouchsafed to render so?
Let us pray, therefore, and implore of His mercy, that we may live blameless in love, free
from all human partialities for one above another. All the generations from Adam even
unto this day have passed away; but those who, through the grace of God, have been made
perfect in love, now possess a place among the godly, and shall be made manifest at the
revelation223 of the kingdom of Christ. For it is written, “Enter into thy secret chambers for
a little time, until my wrath and fury pass away; and I will remember a propitious224 day,
and will raise you up out of your graves.”225 Blessed are we, beloved, if we keep the com-
mandments of God in the harmony of love; that so through love our sins may be forgiven
us. For it is written, “Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, and whose sins are
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covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not impute to him, and in whose mouth
there is no guile.”226 This blessedness cometh upon those who have been chosen by God
through Jesus Christ our Lord; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
223 Literally, “visitation.”
224 Or, “good.”
225 Isa. xxvi. 20.
226 Ps. xxxii. 1, 2.
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Chapter L.—Let us pray to be thought worthy of love.