
Jerome
Catena Aurea · Matthäusevangelium 24
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Observe, He says, the love of many, (Rom. 8:35.) not ‘of all,’ for in the Apostles, and those like them, love would continue, as Paul speaks, Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?