
“Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.”
Fragment xxiii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments
5:28 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+5&version=KJV;SBLGNT
Variant translation:
Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Epistle to the Ephesians
“Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.”
Fragment xxiii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments
The First Revelation, Chapter 5
Context: He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand; and it was as round as a ball. I looked thereupon with eye of my understanding, and thought: What may this be? And it was answered generally thus: It is all that is made. I marvelled how it might last, for methought it might suddenly have fallen to naught for little. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasteth, and ever shall for that God loveth it. And so All-thing hath the Being by the love of God.
in [1, John, 4:12, KJV]
First Letter of John
A short Schem of the true Religion
Context: Abel was righteous & Noah was a preacher of righteousness & by his righteousness he was saved from the flood. Christ is called the righteous & by his righteousness we are saved & except our righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees we shall not enter into the kingdome of heaven. Righteousness is the religion of the kingdom of heaven & even the property of God himself towards man. Righteousness & Love are inseparable for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
“God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.”
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 40
“No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 398.
Of Humanity -->
A short Schem of the true Religion
Jeder liebt sein Land, seine Sitten, seine Sprache, sein Weib, seine Kinder, nicht weil sie die besten auf der Welt, sondern weil sie die bewährten Seinigen sind, und er in ihnen sich und seine Mühe selbst liebt.
Vol. 1, p. 13; translation vol. 1, p. 18
Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit (1784-91)
A short Schem of the true Religion
The First Revelation, Chapter 6
Context: Our soul is so specially loved of Him that is highest, that it overpasseth the knowing of all creatures: that is to say, there is no creature that is made that may know how much and how sweetly and how tenderly our Maker loveth us. And therefore we may with grace and His help stand in spiritual beholding, with everlasting marvel of this high, overpassing, inestimable Love that Almighty God hath to us of His Goodness. And therefore we may ask of our Lover with reverence all that we will.
For our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.