Non gaudet obiniustitiam, con gaudet autem veritati. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Omnia fert, omnia credit, omnia sperat, omnia sustinet.
Love is patient.
He now commends love from its effects or fruits, though at the same time these eulogiums are not intended merely for its commendation, but to make the Corinthians understand what are its offices, and what is its nature. The object, however, mainly in view, is to show how necessary it is for preserving the unity of the Church. I have also no doubt that he designed indirectly to reprove the Corinthians, by setting before them a contrast, in which they might recognize, by way of contraries, their own vices. Under emulation he comprehends envy, which is a vice near akin to it, or rather, he means that emulation, which is connected with envy, and frequently springs from it. Erasmus has rendered it, is not froward.