The disciples of Christ crucify their eros, but this crucifixion, far from making eros die, transforms it and awakens it.

The Hebrew word ahaba is translated in the Greek bible with agape¹ - a noun practically unknown in the secular language - rather than with the verb agapao, "to welcome with affection," especially a child or a guest. Here, the idea is one of "tender inclination toward" (which is found again in the Latin dilegere-dilectio) or one of friendship (the Greek phileo-philia²). The word eros³, "passionate love," on the other hand, is found only twice in the Septuagint, and never in the New Testament. 

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