9 HEREIN WAS THAT LOVE OF GOD MADE MANIFEST AMONGST US, BECAUSE GOD SENT THAT HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON INTO THIS WORLD, THAT WE MIGHT LIVE THROUGH HIM.
10 HEREIN IS THAT LOVE, NOT THAT WE LOVED GOD, BUT THAT HE LOVED US, AND SENT HIS SON TO BE A RECONCILIATION FOR OUR SINS; On high above the mists he came,
A distant flame before the Sun,
A wonder ere the waking dawn
Where grey the Norland waters run.
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lay of Eärendil