More Love

De affectione autem fraternitatis non habemus necessitatem scribendi vobis; ipsi enim a Deo edocti estis, ad hoc ut vos invicem diligati. Nam et hoc facitis in omnes fratres per universam Macedoniam. Etiam hoc cum facere illos laudat, commonet tamen ut propensius id agant; quos enim ab ipso Deo doctos dicit, promptiores esse debere in fraterna dilectione significat. Propter multa enim charitatem Deus misertus est nostri, cujus imitatores effecti, non immerito adoptatos nos ostendimus a Deo in filios. Ambrosiaster, In Epistolam ad Thessalonicenses Primam, Caput IV Source: Migne PL 17.449b

But about fraternal love we have no need to write to you, you who have been taught by God Himself in this, that you love one another, for even this you do to all the brothers throughout the whole of Macedonia. 1 Even when he praises those who do this, he yet exhorts them to be more eager in doing it, which means that those whom he says have been taught by God should be most intent in the loving of brothers. For on account of much love God has been merciful to us, of whom being made imitators, we show that we are not unworthy of being adopted as sons of God. Ambrosiaster, Commentary On The First Letter of Saint Paul To The Thessalonians, Chapter 4 1 1 Thes 4.9-10