Despot Stefan Lazarević
The Homily on Love by Despot Stefan
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good news, God is love (1 Jn. 4, 8), is also the resolution of the Despot's Epistle… The writer reached the inner summit of the Homily in the statement about love, while the fulfillment of the Epistle as a genre comes at the end, in the 'outer' conclusion, when the desire to see each other again and to be reunited is expressed."
The Homily on Love of Despot Stefan Lazarević is one of the most beautiful expressions of love, whether love of God or love of one's brother, brotherly, friendly, spiritual or universal love of life, of nature and of man. The Homily on Love - although much has been written about it - remains to this day a living subject in the studies of literary historians and scholars of cultural history, and attracts the attention of Serbian and foreign researchers alike.
Despot Stefan Lazarević, The Homily on Love
Stefan the Despot,
to the sweetest and most beloved,
and inseparable from my heart,
and much, doubly desired,
and abounding in wisdom,
the sincere one of my realm,
(having spoken the name),
in the Lord a loving embrace,
and together with it, of our grace,
an unstinting bestowal.
Summer and spring the Lord created,
as the psalmist also said,