One further thought in conclusion, The Christian reads more into the sixth commandment than did the Jew. We have been taught to see that one may keep the letter of the law and yet break the spirit of it. and our Lord taught in Matthew five that we have not kept the sixth commandment when we have observed the bare literal meaning. The h young ruler could say quite conscientiously, "All these commandments have I kept from my youth up. Duty from his point of view consisted in not doing this or that—in abstaining from wrong-doing—but the Christian observance differs from that in two main respects. We seek to turn the negative into a positive. Following the suggestion made by our Blessed Lord in the passage to which I have referred, we follow the crime back through its minor degrees to where it takes its origin in the heart. We seek the motives—hate and jealousy—and judge them to be the real sins even if they do not come to the overt act; and then seeking to turn the negative into a positive we find that it is lack of love which constitutes the essential sin in the crime of murder. So we interpret the commandment to enjoin love. The catechism teaches this:
ly duty toward my neighbour is—not only to respect his rights—but to love him as myself, and to do unto all men as I would they should do unto me." Love is the fulfilment of ihe law and the. principle of love must be enthroned in our hearts and hate cast out before we can keep the law of Christ—"Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." as to kill his fellow-man could flee for temporary protection against the vengeance of the next of kin, The case was then tried and if the elders of the city, who sat in judgment, decided that the manslaughter had been unintentional, the slayer of blood was allowed to remain in safety in the city of refuge, Protect Your Eyes From Harmful Glare Wear scientific—Infrex lenses for greater eye comfort
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