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They love one another; if they have something good, they divide equally; if something bitter befalls them, they drink it together comforting one another. But in that three-cornered body, some are sadly weeping while others make fun of them; some sweat in terrible labors while others loiter in pleasant coolness. All these inequalities, so offensive to truth, have been brought about by the sundered wicked hordes. And they forget especially the words which he spoke preparing himself for death and praying for his disciples that they might remain faithful and for those chosen for salvation. In that prayer he said:

In that passage it is declared that the people who went to please God and be saved through the death of Christ – a salvation for which Christ prayed here – must be united in this divine unity and be perfect in it so that all those who believed in him through apostolic preaching until our own day might be one, remaining in the unity 1-Cor. 12: 26.

John 17:20–23,.