Wrong suffered – This excerpt is from a longer article called, “The Grammar of Love.”

遭受的痛苦——这段节选自一篇题为《爱的语法》的长文。

Let’s start with the Greek text. Ou logizetai to kakon The literal translation is “does not count (to itself) evil”. This is often translated, “is not resentful” (ESV). Here we have two important words. The first is logizetai, from the verb that means ‘to reason, account, reckon, impute’. In the passive, this indicates an action that is turned upon someone, namely, “to count something to somebody, to put to someone’s account.” In our vernacular, it has the sense of keeping score of someone’s deeds. This is the same expression that is used as a description of God’s act of imputing righteousness to sinners in the act of forgiveness. Since we know that this list of predicates about love is the essential characteristics of God Himself, we may gain some appreciation of the power of this term by noting that it is God who first decides not to keep score of wrongs against Him and His holy law.

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