Real Kissing

Salutate invicem in osculo sancto... Osculo sancto, osculo vero, osculo pacifico, osculo columbino, non subdolo, non polluto, quali usus est Joab ad occidendum Amasam, quali Judas ad tradendum Salvatorem, quali utuntur hi qui loquuntur pacem cum proximo suo, mala autem sunt in cordibus eorum. Illi ergo osculo sancto salutant invicem, qui non dliigunt verbo neque lingua, sed opere et veritate. Sancta Beda, In Primam Epistolam Sancti Petri, Caput V Source: Migne PL 93.68a-b

Greet one another with a sacred kiss... 1 With a holy kiss, a true kiss, a kiss of peace, a dovelike kiss, not deceitful, not defiled, as Joab gave for the murder of Amasa, 2 as Judas gave for the betrayal of the Saviour, as they give who speak peace in their hearts to their neighbour and have evil in their hearts. 3 They, then, who greet one another with a sacred kiss, do not love merely in word and speech, but in deed and truth. Saint Bede, Commentary on the First Letter of Peter, Chap 5 1 1 Pet 5.14 2 2 Kings 20.9-10 3 Ps 27.3