I did find it interesting (maybe funny?), the way John said that Paul never read the Sermon on the Mount.
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4 ай бұрын
John around 30mins starts talking about Vss 37-38 from gospel of Matthew that Tolstoy spent the rest of his life trying to draw peoples attention to. Ghandi decided to take Tolstoy up on it and he read it and decided Jesus meant for everyone who understood it to apply it, and not just think of it metaphorically. Then Ghandi began his non-violent campaign and based his entire campaign on Jesus's Sermon on the Mount and the application of Matthew 5:38 regarding not reviling or not retaliating.
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4 ай бұрын
In the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible a ftnte for Mt 5:38 makes a few references to Old Testament Scripture, the first one being Exodus 21:24, and the ftnte says that Jesus was forbidding the misuse of Mosaic Civil Law to justify private vengeance!!! (compare today's Israel killing over 35,000 Palestinian civilians, with 10,000 still missing under the rubble, in retaliation for Hamas killing 1,200 and still holding over 100 Israelis hostage, while Israel is holding about 9,000 Palestinians hostage in their prisons where even children are tried as an adult without representation through a corrupt trial without mercy!!! ). The ftnte says that Exodus 21:24 was meant to limit retribution; it was never an invitation to inflict punishment for personal injuries or extend personal vengeance beyond the injury suffered ( cf. Leviticus 24:20; Deuteronomy 19:21 ). The punishment had to fit the crime but not exceed it. Jesus eliminates such a policy of retaliation from personal life. ( cf New Testament Romans 12:17 ).
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