That day
Saturday, 28 October 2006
The verse
“Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,”1 Corinthians 13:4 · WEB
From the tradition
“For we may venture to say that the Gospel is the first fruits of all the Scriptures.”
Origen of Alexandria · Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book I, §4
In the words of a public-domain translation (tr. Allan Menzies, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 9, ed. Allan Menzies (1896)), checked against the source edition.