The Morals of Christ: A Comparison With Contemporaneous Systems (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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For, he says, On these two commandments (positive) hang all the Law and the Prophets (negative); or, when he generalizes st'ill farther these same commandments into the Golden Rule - One positive precept Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even SO to them; and so fulfill the Law and the Prophets.

The Mosaic morality said, in substance, DO nothing that is wrong; the morality of Christ, DO everything that is right. The substance of the former, is, Thou shalt do no evil; that of the latter, Thou shalt do good; the substantial command of the former, Thou shalt not hate that Of the latter, Thou shalt love; the principle of the former, justice; that Of the latter, benevolence. The Ten Commandments might more appropriately be called the Ten Prohibitions; while the Sermon on the Mount is the real commandment. In the Old Testament there was restraint and warning put upon the moral man; in the New, liberty and impulse. In the former man Was a slave, under bonds against vice; in the latter he is free, under incentives to virtue. The Mosaic morality said substantially, DO nothing in morality, lest it be an injury; the Christian morality said, Do some thing in morality, since it may be good.

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