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Full Idea
Love your enemies.
Gist of Idea
Love your enemies
Source
Jesus (reports [c.32]), quoted by St Matthew - 01: Gospel of St Matthew 05.44
Book Ref
'The Bible', ed/tr. the Church [Collins 1950], p.459
A Reaction
The germ of this idea had been around for several hundred years, but this very forceful statement is perhaps Jesus' most distinctive contribution to moral thought. It has the same clarion call as the Stoic demand for pure virtue. What about deserving?
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