Luke 10:27 And he answering said, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength… Practically a new chapter was opened in the history of morals when Jesus announced that within this solitary principle of duty, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself," room could be found for every commandment in the Second Table of the Decalogue. 1. The affection which fulfils the whole law is an ethical principle, and not simply an instinctive or generous affection. 2. The neighbour-love which fulfils God's law possesses a compass as wide as the species, and is thereby raised above every rule of moral obligation which obtained popular currency before Christ. 3. This neighbour-love which fulfils the law forms an express counteractive and equivalent to selfishness as a motive of conduct. 4. This golden rule will carry us a great deal further than the merely negative virtue of working no harm, which, in its terms, is all that the Decalogue calls for. (J. O. Dykes, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. |
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