By Schubert Ogden
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Yes, one can rightly say this. If we are commanded, as we are, to love God with all of our powers, then, clearly, God alone must be the object of our loyalty just as God alone is the ground of our trust. Moreover, in the one case just as in the other, the force of "alone" is not to make God the only ground of trust or the only object of loyalty, but, as in all proper uses of the particula exdusiva, to make God the only primal ground of trust or the only final object of loyalty.
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