When Christ
utters the precepts: «
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray
for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you,» he gives
for a reason: «That ye may be the
children of your Father which is in heaven:
for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.»