187. At the same time, we must also think of
the words which, after first saying “Who shall separate us from
the love of Christ?” Rom. viii. 35. he wrote
next: “Neither death, nor life, nor any other creature can
separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus.” We see, then, that the love of God is the same as
the love of Christ. Thus it was not without reason that he wrote
of the love of God, “which is in Christ Jesus,” lest
otherwise thou mightest imagine that the love of God and of Christ was
divided. But there is nothing that love divides, nothing that the
eternal Godhead cannot do, nothing that is unknown to the Truth, or
deceives Justice, or escapes the notice of Wisdom.