What is the cross? Said the bishop as he examined a theologian and an uneducated deceiver?
It is the victory over death! Said the theologian.
It is love, smiled the deceiver.
What is the meaning of the Nicene Creed?
It is the profound truth of the deity of Jesus Christ, God from God, among other truths through which St. Athanasius sought to make consensus to battle Arianism.
It is love, smiled the deceiver!
The bishop examined both answers and many others and concluded the latter to be the more excellent theologian.
The theologian turned to the bishop and said, Ought I not also to include that I exist prior to each word I speak? But who needs to hear of love so frequently, nay so obsessively, but those who sin most deeply without repentance? Further, is not victory over death love, and proclaiming the truth just so as well?