Verse 18
18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
Ver. 18. There is no fear in love ] But complacence and acquiescence in the person beloved.
Perfect love casteth out fear ] Timorem scilicet servilem illum, non amicalem. (Beda in Pro 1:1-33 )
Because fear hath torment ] Quem metuunt, oderunt, Whomsoever men fear, they hate, saith the proverb. And odium timorem spirat, saith Tertullian. Hatred hath fear, which sets the soul on a rack, as it were, and renders it restless.
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