Let brotherly love continue.
1. Let brotherly love, etc. Probably he gave this command respecting brotherly love, because a secret hatred arising from the haughtiness of the Jews was threatening to rend the Churches. But still this precept is generally very needful, for nothing flows away so easily as love; when everyone thinks of himself more than he ought, he will allow to others less than he ought; and...
Brotherly love among believers is the spirit of Christianity itself; faith works by love, and true religion is the strongest bond of friendship. But disputes about religion corrode this affection when it is most needed, and you must guard against it with all proper means.
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Commenting on Hebrews 13:1-17
Let brotherly love continue. The Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions add, "in you"; or among you, as a church and society of Christians; for this is not to be understood of love to all mankind, or to those of the same nation, or who are in a strict natural relation brethren, though they are all in a sense brethren, and to be loved; but of...