Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called, and should be the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth not us, because it knew not him.
Glossa Ordinaria
See, etc. Consider diligently with how many and what kind of gifts God has shown his fatherly charity toward us. For he granted that in this age we should be named sons of God in name and in deed, and that in the age to come we should be so, by possessing the inherited beatitude. He has given. God has given charity to this end, that we may know how and be able to love him, yet not as servants a master, but as sons a father. Whence it is said: But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God.
English is machine-translated from the public-domain Latin (Glossa Ordinaria, Migne, Patrologia Latina 113-114, 1852; digital text from Corpus Corporum, mlat.uzh.ch), since no public-domain English translation exists. It is not a scholarly translation. Please report errors.