Love is therefore the breadth of the commandment.
What is here said, could not have been spoken in Solomon's person. 13 Behold the transgression of the tradition of the elders is objected to Him. But He who was wiser than His elders, let us hear what answer He made them. He hath stated what made him fear, so that he refrained his feet from every evil way. Thou, more inward than my inmost self, Thou hast laid down a law within my heart by Thy Spirit, as it were by Thy fingers, that I might not fear it as a slave without love, but might love it with a chaste fear as a son, and fear it with a chaste love.