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The Spiritual Man, book by H. H. Pope Shenouda III

12- The depth in friendship and love

 

St-Takla.org Image: Jonathan loved David as his own soul: (I Samuel 18:1) - from "Standard Bible Story Readers", book 3, Lillie A. Faris. صورة في موقع الأنبا تكلا: يوناثان أحب داود كنفسه: (1 صموئيل 18: 1) - من كتاب "قراء قصص الكتاب المقدس الأساسية"، الكتاب الثالث، ليلي أ. فارس.

You may have a friend for twenty years and for a certain word or on hearing false news, he turns out and changes and you say to him: “Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love“ (Rev 2:4). But, about the deep love, the Holy Bible says:

“Many waters cannot quench love” (Song 8:7) .

“For love is as strong as death.” (Song 8:6). “Love never fails.” (1 Cor 13:8).

Whether it was love towards God or towards man.

Deep as the love of a mother to her babe... Like the love between David and Jonathan.

Love that follows to the cross, like the love of St John to Jesus. Love: “Not in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.” (1 Jn 3:18).

The deepest love is the one that gives, even itself.

As the love of God on the Cross: “For God so loved the world that he gave...” (Jn 3:16).