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1 Clement and the Gospel of Philip join Paul's account of love with the claim that love covers sins. The same combination supports unity in Clement and healing in Philip, so forgiving sins helps other people live together and recover from harm.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Clement of Rome, 1 Clement 49:5
First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
Early Christian
4 The height, whereto love exalts, is unspeakable. 5 Love joins us to God; love covers a multitude of sins; love endures all things, is long-suffering in all things. There is nothing coarse, nothing arrogant in love. Love has no divisions, love makes no seditions, love does all things in concord. In love were all the elect of God made perfect; without love nothing is well pleasing to God. 6 in love the Master took us to Himself; for the love which He had toward us, Jesus Christ our Lord has given His blood for us by the will of God, and His flesh for our flesh and His life for our lives.
Gospel of Philip 11:14
Nag Hammadi
Love [never says it owns] anything, yet [everything] is owned by it. It does not [say “That is mine,”] or, “This is mine,” but instead, [“Everything that is mine] is yours.” Spiritual love is wine as well as fragrance. All who anoint themselves with it [derive good from] it. Those who stand near them also derive good, as do those anointed ones who are standing there. If those who are anointed with ointment leave them and go away, those who are not anointed, who only stand near them, they return to being stuck in their stench. The Samaritan gave nothing to the injured man but wine and oil. It was nothing other than the ointment, and it cured the injuries, because “love covers a multitude of sins.”
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Notes and References
“... The quotation of 1 Cor 8:1 in §110 leads into a further discussion of love in §111, with a paraphrase of 1 Cor 13:4–8 (which is logical based on the connection of love and the use of fusio,w), followed by an allusion to the Samaritan (Luke 10:34), and a quotation of 1 Pet 4:8. While the author appears to string together quotations, paraphrases, and allusions in a unique way, the combination of 1 Cor 13:4–8 and 1 Pet 4:8 is evident in other early Christian literature (1 Clem. 49.5; Clement, Strom. 4.18; Quis div. 38). ...”
Zelyck, Lorne R.
John among the Other Gospels: The Reception of the Fourth Gospel in the Extra-Canonical Gospels
(p. 111) Mohr Siebeck, 2013
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