What I Believe by Leo Tolstoy ~ Full Audiobook [religion]
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The Law of an Eye for an Eye and a Tooth for a Tooth
"I so dread calling these commandments cruel that I should rather be inclined to consider a contrary law as wrong, according to plain common sense," says Chrysostom. If even the existence of laws, fear and threats of punishment, can hardly keep the evil intentioned with bounds, what would there then be to restrain men from evil deeds if all obstacles were removed? John Chrysostom plainly acknowledges the law of a tooth for a tooth to be the divine law; he considers Christ's doctrine of non-resistance to be wrong.
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