Sentences with phrase «stress loving thy neighbor as»

These clergymen stress loving thy neighbor as the major Christian ethical dictum.

Not exact matches

For example, it is the opinion of not a few biblical scholars that the love commandments in the Fourth Gospel and the epistles of John, so often quoted to stress the universality of the Christian ethic, were originally understood as applying only within the Christian community, and as in the Old Testament «Love your neighbor» meant «Love your fellow Israelite,» so the corresponding «new commandment» was taken to mean, «Love your fellow Christlove commandments in the Fourth Gospel and the epistles of John, so often quoted to stress the universality of the Christian ethic, were originally understood as applying only within the Christian community, and as in the Old Testament «Love your neighbor» meant «Love your fellow Israelite,» so the corresponding «new commandment» was taken to mean, «Love your fellow ChristLove your neighbor» meant «Love your fellow Israelite,» so the corresponding «new commandment» was taken to mean, «Love your fellow ChristLove your fellow Israelite,» so the corresponding «new commandment» was taken to mean, «Love your fellow ChristLove your fellow Christian.

17 - 26) which is so called because it mainly stresses ritualistic and ceremonial purity though it does contain the great commandment, «Love thy neighbor as thyself.