4 Types of Love
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ScribdTranslationsLEARN HOW ANCIENT GREEK CULTURE
DEFINE THE MOST COMMON FEELING AND
COMPLEX OF HISTORY.
The word love is not complex by nature; everything boils down to
lack of feeling of affection, interest, affinity, and attraction towards something or
someone. I believe that the true complication lies in the
multiple ways to apply the word: in context and in the message, the
the way we write it in a song or in desire
impulsive to possess or to be possessed.
In matters of love, the Greeks were the experts, and in a kind of
from the experiment within their own culture, they managed to assign various
definitions with the purpose of clarifying some of the ways in which
we manifest love.
EROS
Greek mythology considered Eros as the God of love, without
embargo, this only represented thecarnal partof the matter; the desire and
sexual attraction. It represented erotic love, the one that manifests
at the beginning of a relationship, where passion and curiosity play a
important paper.
This type of loveit is fleetingdetermines the beginning of a
adventure, could later turn into something deeper, but
while that happens, eros confines itself to conditional love and to a form
idealized version of it, guided by passion and the impulse of desire
carnal.
STORGE
Also known as fraternal love. The wordloyaltyrule this
type of affection, we develop it towards our family, companions and
friends. Under this definition, the relationships in which
thecommitmentit is fundamental, we can even feel it towards someone
pet or anything that awakens the desire to take care of us
mutually.
The Greeks claimed that affection or storge love grows slowly,
it is necessary to have a broad knowledge of the person in order to
define it as such.
BROTHERLY LOVE
His word is 'brotherhood'. The intention of this type of love
promote the common good and cooperation with other beings
humans during coexistence. It has much more to do with the
social psychology and how we interact with other people
within a certain environment.
Solidarity plays an important role in this type of affection,
we could even compare it to the term that Aristotle gave it
it awarded to friendship. This type of love is what drives us to be
kindwith the othersto work as a team.
AGAPE
This is the concept that highlights the deeper side of the word.
according to the definition ofWikipediait refers to an unconditional love and
reflexive, in which the priority is always the well-being of the loved one.
This definition gives a somewhat religious tone to love, since it
we can associate with Christian philosophy about divinity and the
devotion.
After this cultural brew, it is clear to me that there are currently
many terms that resemble the idea that the Greeks had about the
love in its different facets. Without a doubt, it remains a feeling.
full of nuances and –in my opinion– very difficult to categorize.
If they could translate these concepts to current ideas, how
Would they call them aeros, storgé, philia, agape?
THE 4 'LOVES'
We know that we do not love a friend with the same love with which we love
our wife or husband. So we can deduce that there are
different kinds of love
That is why the Greek uses 4 different terms to refer to love, or to
differentiate different classes of affects:
1st - EROS
Name derived from Eros, the Greek god of love.
It is love and sexual attraction and always includes passion. From there comes erotic or
eroticism.
As sexual perversions were in vogue even in ancient times, the
The Bible does not use such a term, perhaps so that it is not confused with some of
sexual perversions.
Now, it is natural and legitimate for a marriage to want to have relations.
sexual desires, so it is normal for spouses to feel EROS or for there to be
eroticism in marriage.
It is called Eros then to the passion and desire to have intimate relationships with
the person of the opposite sex.
2nd - PHILIA OR FILEO
It means having a special interest in the other affection, friendship.
In the Bible, translating love when it says Phileo has caused confusion.
because it refers to a strong friendship.
Fileo is the attraction and affection that friends feel.
3rd - STORGUÉ
It is used to define the love between:
Father to sons and among brothers.
In Romans 12:10, the word FILOSTORGOS is used, which is a word
composed of philes (the noun form of phileo) and storge. Romans 12:10 is
a very important verse that guides us to be very affectionate and kind to one another
with others.
The translation would be something like this:
As for your brotherly love, may there be a deep friendship among you.
family affection
4th - AGAPE
It is used to refer to the love of God. For example, when it says:
... for God so loved the world...
The original says.
For God so loved the world
Agape is the very nature of God because God is love. 1 John 4:8
Agape is a sacrificial love that is self-motivated or self-generated.
It is called sacrificial love, not 'because of', but 'in spite of':
Even though the other does not provoke me to love, is unpleasant or
unjust.
Although the situation makes me angry, or I find it repulsive.
It does not depend on the qualities or external beauty of the loved object, but on itself.
same.
It is a willful love, loves because it decides to love. Loves because it depends on
his will and not of what he feels.
The other 'loves' need an external stimulus to arise,
change agape self-stimulates.
It can include feelings but does not depend on them, it is in first
it is an instance of will, a deliberate decision.
Jesus died out of love, but as a human he did not want to die, he was not
masochist, and this is demonstrated in Gethsemane when he asks the Father to
free from the sacrifice of the cross, and when he understands that the Father wanted him to
go to the cross, obey and He loved us with Agape. Let's see that there was a
discrepancy between his feelings and his will, he had no desire to die in
the cross, but decided to take it on.
This is the reason why God can command us to love our
enemies (Matthew 5:44). We are not commanded to 'have good feelings'
but to have a loving attitude towards them.
Jesus uses the term agape when he commands us to love our enemies,
that is, agape to our enemies and not phileo, since it is impossible to love with
I screw up the enemies, and what's more, it would even be a little unfair for us to ask Fileo.
by our enemies.
Agape love is related to obedience and commitment, and not
necessarily with feeling and emotion. "To love" someone is to obey
to God in favor of another person, seeking for him or her, the blessing and
long-term benefit.
The other "loves" depend in some way on something external, on the object.
beloved, who in some way, provokes love or feelings within our being,
but agape is the only independent one, and does not need any stimulation
external because it self-stimulates. It is the love with which God loves.
Love
Romans 12:9
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Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.
1 Peter 4:8
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And above all, have fervent love among yourselves; for love will cover a multitude.
of sins.
1 Corintios 13:4-6
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Love is patient, it is kind; love does not envy, love is not
boastful, does not become arrogant; does nothing improper, does not seek its own, is not easily irritated,
do not hold a grudge; do not rejoice in injustice, but rejoice in the truth.
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
they are love.
1 John 4:16
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And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God
It is love; and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
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Hatred stirs up strife; but love covers all offenses.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
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Better is the food of legumes where there is love, than that of a fattened ox where there is...
there is hate.
Songs 1:2
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Oh, if he would kiss me with kisses from his mouth! For your loves are better than the
wine
Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
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Put me as a seal over your heart, as a mark over your arm; For
Love is as strong as death; Jealousy is as cruel as the grave; Its embers,
embers of fire, strong flame.
Many waters cannot quench love; neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
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Many waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers drown it. If one were to give all the substance of his house for love, it would be utterly despised.
man all the goods of his house for this love, Surely they would despise it.
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
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And above all these things, put on love, which is the perfect bond.
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends.
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No one has greater love than this, that one lays down his life for his friends.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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I am crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And
what I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself
He gave himself for me.
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.
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Know then that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps the covenant and the
mercy to those who love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand
generations.
For the LORD loves justice and does not forsake his saints; they are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
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For the Lord loves righteousness and does not forsake His saints...
I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.
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I love those who love me, and those who seek me early find me.
In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
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In this, the love of God was manifested toward us: that God sent His Son
only begotten, so that we may live through Him. This is love: Not that we
we have loved God, but in that He loved us, and sent His Son to
propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God has loved us like this, we must
also we love one another.
1 John 4:16
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And we have come to know and believe the love of God. God is love. And whoever
remain in love, remain in God, and God in him.
We love because He first loved us. If someone says, 'I love God,' and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
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We love him because he loved us first. If anyone says, 'I love'
God, and hates his brother, is a liar. For he who does not love his brother...
Who has seen, how can one love God whom one has not seen?
1 John 3:10
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In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: whoever does not
He who does justice, and does not love his brother, is not of God.
No one can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
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No one can serve two masters. For he will either hate the one and love the other, or
he will esteem one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
Joshua 23:11
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Take heed to yourselves, that you love the Lord your God.
God.
Psalm 18:1
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I love you, oh Jehovah, my strength.
Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
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Jesus said to him: "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and
with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second
You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
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The friend loves at all times, and is like a brother in times of trouble.
1ra de Corintios 13:4-13
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Love is patient, it is kind; Love does not envy, love is not
boastful, does not become conceited. Does nothing improper, does not seek its own, is not provoked,
do not hold a grudge. One does not rejoice in injustice, but rejoices in truth. Everything
suffers, believes everything, hopes for everything, endures everything. Love never ceases to be… And
now remain faith, hope, and love, these three. But the greatest of these
it is love.
John 15:12-13
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This is my commandment: That you love one another, as I have loved you. No one
Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
Leviticus 19:18
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You shall not take vengeance, nor bear a grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
You shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
