“Christ doth not love believers with a low, flat, dull, common love, with such a love as most men love one another with, but with a love that is like himself. Now, men will give as they love: 1 Sam. 1:4, 5, ‘And Elkanah gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all his sons and daughters, portions, but unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion, for he loved her.’ In the Hebrew it is, ‘he gave her a gift of the face;’ that is, a great, an honourable gift. Men look upon great and honourable gifts with a sweet and cheerful countenance; so the gifts that Jesus Christ gives to believers are the gifts of the face, that is, they are the greatest gifts, the honourablest gifts, the choicest gifts, gifts fit for none but a king to give.”
A Cabinet of Jewels
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Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 95.
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 10.
The Marquis of Lorne, Viscount Palmerston, K.G. (London: 1892), p. 235
“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”
5:28 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+5&version=KJV;SBLGNT
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Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Epistle to the Ephesians
“There is no gift more great than love.”
Morvyth, in Book Two : The Mathematics of Gonfal, Ch. X : Relative to Gonfal's Head
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