Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

Waters - in contrast with the "coals of fire," which can be ordinarily quenched with water (; ). Satan's waterflood of persecutions () cannot quench the Church's love (). Our many provocations have not quenched His love (Romans 8:33). if ... give all the substance ... contemned-nothing short of Jesus Christ Himself, not even heaven without Him, can satisfy the saint (). Satan offers the world, as to Jesus Christ, so to the saint, in vain (1 John 2:15; ). Nothing But our love, in turn, can satisfy Him (1 Corinthians 13:1).

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