"Love the Lord thy God"; "Fear the Lord thy God"; "There is no fear in love." These excerpts from Deuteronomy 6: 5,13, and I John 4:18 seem to give rise to a conflicted psychological state: How can one both love and fear God (Old Testament) if there is no fear in love (New Testament)? This paradox is argued in complex triple counterpoint, wherein each voice takes up each statement in turn, with no two voices reciting the same text at the same time. The punning tempo indication-- "Andante alighieri"--, devilishly abundant tritones, bumptious accents and syncopations, miscellaneous alarums and excursions, and mischievous allusions to the dance betray a certain dark, infernal humor that arises in spite of--or even because of--the seeming (con)textual contradiction.