A Hermeneutic of Love

"Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such and interpretation on them as does not tend to build up into the twofold love of God and neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought." —Augustine, 354 to 430 AD

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