Miscellanies 2.9.42

And if the true man within us is the spiritual one, philanthropy is brotherly love toward those who share the same Spirit. Affection, again, is the preservation of goodwill or of loving; and loving is complete acceptance; and to love is to be pleased with a character, being drawn and drawn along; and people are drawn into sameness through concord, which is the knowledge of common goods; for like-mindedness too is agreement of judgments. “Let love,” it says, “be without hypocrisy” for us; and let us ourselves be “abhorring what is evil, holding fast to the good in brotherly love,” and so on, until “if possible, as far as it depends on you, living at peace with all people.” Then it says, “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” And the same apostle confesses that he bears witness to the Jews “that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, not knowing the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to the righteousness of God.” For they neither knew nor did the intention of the law, but what they themselves supposed, this they thought the law also intended. Nor did they believe the law as prophesying; they followed the bare word and fear, but not disposition and faith. “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness,” he who was prophesied by the law, “to everyone who believes.”