Outside the New Testament philadelphia almost invariably denotes the love that binds together the children of one father; in the New Testament it is without exception used for the love uniting Christians to one another. James Denney thought that the importance of this ‘is not sufficiently considered by most Christian people; who, if they looked into the matter, might find that few of their strongest affections were determined by the common faith. Is not love a strong and peculiar word to describe