16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.



Ver. 16. And we have known and believed] That is, we know by believing. {See Trapp on "Joh_6:69"}



God is love] Pellican tells of some in his time that used to read this piece of Scripture to their friends at their feasts. A pious practice surely, and well beseeming those that feast before the Lord. The primitive Christians had at such times their kiss of love, 1Pe_5:14. And St Austin had these two verses written on his table,



" Quisquis amat dictis absentum rodere famam,



Hanc mensam vetitam noverit esse sibi."