The Johannine corpus is obsessed with love as its moral centerpiece, but it is always the love of the believing brethren, and never the love of the husband and wife, the parent and child, or the kinsman and kinsmen.
“Nor are there wanting other motions of the whale in his general body, full of strangeness, and unaccountable to his most experienced assailant. Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep. I know him not, and never will.”
Moby Dick, Herman Melville, ch. LXXXVI
“Seldom have I known any profound being that had anything to say to this world, unless forced to stammer out something by way of getting a living.”
-Moby Dick, Herman Melville, ch LXXXV