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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Love |
 | | love of God: spiritual sloth, at least when it entails a voluntary loathing of spiritual goods, and the hatred of God, whether it be an abomination of God's restrictive and punitive laws or an aversion for His Sacred |
 | | love of God is called "the greatest and the first commandment" (Matthew 22:38), "the end of the commandment" (1 Tim., i, 5), "the bond of perfection" (Colossians 3:14). |
 | | love to members of the family, or co-religionists, or fellow-citizens, or strangers within the borders (Leviticus 19:34), but must needs extend it, without distinction of Jew or Gentile (Romans 10:12), to all the units of the human kind, to social outcasts (Luke 10:33 sqq. |
| www.newadvent.org /cathen/09397a.htm (1951 words) |
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