“You have heard it said,” Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount, “but I say unto you…” The formula appears in some variation six times in Matthew 5, immediately after Jesus announces that he comes not to abolish the Law but fulfill it. Anger, lust, divorce, oaths, retaliation, and loving our enemies—in each case, the “newness” of Christ’s proclamation o…
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