Chapter 1 (96): 1. On The Charity By Which God And Neighbour Are Loved, Which Is
Distinction XXVII | 113 become available to them before Christ's passion; after its consummation, they passed from faith to gaze.
DISTINCTION XX VII
Chapter 1 (96)
1. ON THE CHARITY BY WHICH GOD AND NEIGHBOUR ARE LOVED, WHICH IS
IN CHRIST AND IN US. Although Christ did not have faith and hope, yet as a man he had such love than which there can be no greater; it was due to his most excellent charity that he gave his life for his friends and for his enemies.' He also had in his heart that charity which he showed to us by deed, so that by the form of his showing he might instruct us in love.
2. Here something is to be said of charity, and of the manner and order of loving God and neighbour.
Chapter 2 (97) 1. WHAT IS CHARITY. Charity is the love by which God is loved for his own Sake, and our neighbour is loved for the sake of God or in God.
2. ON THE TWO COMMANDMENTS OF CHARITY. Charity has two commandments: one pertains to the love of God, and it is the greatest commandment of the Law;' the other pertains to the love of neighbour, and it is like the first. The first is: You shall love God with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul, which is written in Deuteronomy.' The second is: You shall love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law and the Prophets.—AUGUSTINE, ON CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE, IN BOOK 1: "For the end of the commandment is love, and a twofold one, that is, of God and neighbour.""
Chapter 3 (98)
WHETHER GOD AND NEIGHBOUR ARE LOVED BY THE SAME CHARITY.
Here it is asked whether God is loved by the same love as our neighbour, or whether the love of God is one thing, that of our neighbour another.-—
The love by which God and our neighbour are loved is certainly the "Fae b5, 13; 'Cf. Mt. 22, 36-40.
Deut. 6, 5.
3Mt. 22.39-40.
4De doctrina christiana, bk 1 c26 n27.