Claim. The way of indemnity requires absolute faith, then absolute obedience, then absolute love — and although the first two pass, absolute love remains as the final form; “digesting the enemy” is its terminal mode.
Elaboration. SMM gives the three-stage sequence and its terminal limit: “Absolute faith will pass, and absolute obedience will also pass; what remains at the very end is absolute love. Faith, love, and hope, these three are always there, but what is said to be the first among these three? Love! Faith passes and hope also passes, but love remains until the very end” (CSG 8.4 §7, 169-130, 1987.10.29). Self-denial is the prerequisite: “A perfect religion begins with self-denial, with the complete denial of the fallen world. That is why you must deny the world, deny your nation, tribe, family, wife or husband… deny your own mind and body” (ibid, 126-34, 1983.4.10). And the enemy-love command lands as “digesting”: “Absolute love means digesting one’s enemy… Revenge does not mean forgiveness. The enemy should willingly hand over to you his nation, all his rights, and even his right of a first son. You must receive these things from him” (ibid, 126-46, 1983.4.10). Source-note: this H1 heading carries the prose-only-heading bug; citation uses file-level wikilink with |CSG 8.4 §7 display alias.
See also. true-love, believers-responsibility