“What, then, has the Cross of Christ to tell us about the nature and content of Agape-love? It testifies that it is a love that gives itself away, that sacrifices itself, even to the uttermost … Indeed as Paul sees it, Agape can go so far in requiring a man to sacrifice his own spiritual advantages for the advantage of his neighbour, that he even declares himself willing to be accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of his kinsmen according to the flesh, if thereby they might be saved.”