John Chrysostom, on 1Cor 14:1

“Follow after charity, be zealous for spiritual gifts; but rather that you may prophesy.”

“If now so great is the virtue of love, with good reason doth he add and say, "Follow after love." For there is surely need of "following," and a kind of vehement running after her: in such sort doth she fly from us, and so many are the things which trip us up in that direction. Wherefore we have ever need of great earnestness in order to overtake her. And to point out this, Paul said not, "follow love," but, "pursue" her; stirring us up, and inflaming us to lay hold on her.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.