Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 02 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Chapter IX.--The Connection of the Christian Virtues.
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 2
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Such a fear, accordingly, leads to repentance and hope. Now hope is the expectation of good things, or an expectation sanguine of absent good; and favourable circumstances are assumed in order to good hope, which we have learned leads on to love. Now love turns out to be consent in what pertains to reason, life, and manners, or in brief, fellowship in life, or it is the intensity of friendship and of affection, with right reason, in the enjoyment of associates. And an associate (hetairos) is another self; [2243] just as we call those, brethren, who are regenerated by the same word. And…
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