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Gospel reading October 26 - Matthew 22:34-40
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When the Pharisees heard
that he had silenced the Sadducees,
they gathered together,
and one of them, a lawyer,
asked him a question to test him.
“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”
He said to him,
“ ‘You shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart,
and with all your soul,
and with all your mind.’
This is the greatest and first commandment.
And a second is like it:
‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
On these two commandments
hang all the law and the prophets.”
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On Oct 19 2008, Richard Smith Wrote:
These OT verses are from Dt 6:4-5, the Shema, the "creed" of Judaism, and from Lev 19:18. Read these verses in their context.
Jesus' position is well received by his questioners because his answers are quite consistent with pharisaic teaching, especially Hillel.
Compare the different versions in Mk 12:28-34, Lk 10:25-28. Luke has a very different context.
Read also Gal 5:14 and Rom 13:8-10.
It is difficult to support the position that Jesus corrected Pharisaic legalism with the love ethic or that Jesus provided an insight that was new to Jewish religious thinking.
How does the golden rule follow from the Shema?
How does the Shema fulfill all the commands?
Hillel - "Whatever is hateful to yourself do not to another; that is the whole law, all the rest is commentary."
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