{"id":4601,"date":"2018-03-26T12:09:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T16:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4601"},"modified":"2018-03-21T10:12:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T14:12:38","slug":"elder-ephraim-on-love-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4601","title":{"rendered":"Elder Ephraim on Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Lord will condemn to eternal fire those who create temptations. Sincerely love one another\u2014not falsely and superficially, but with spiritual depth. Our Christ showed us so much love that His holy example should become a holy reason for us also to love one another similarly.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If we do not show love through our deeds\u2014not only in words\u2014in vain do we labor in our struggle, for we are beating the air25 and are straying from the goal of our salvation. Let us not be deceived, thinking that we shall be saved while neglecting the basic virtue of love. If we are not characterized by the unadulterated love of Christ, in vain do we run, in which case all hope of salvation is lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>-&#8216;Counsels from the Holy Mountain&#8217;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4602\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1v6-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1v6-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1v6-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1v6.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Lord will condemn to eternal fire those who create temptations. Sincerely love one another\u2014not falsely and superficially, but with spiritual depth. Our Christ showed us so much love that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4603,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions\/4603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}